“This is a significant milestone for our Green Metal Project and another step towards producing commercial-scale green metal in Australia. For decades Australia has exported iron ore to the world. The next opportunity is to create more value from that ore by producing green metal here at home,” said Dino Otranto, metals chief executive officer at Fortescue. 

Metso said that it provided the core smelting design and technology along with the electric DRI smelting furnace. It is currently being tested to see if it can use Pilbara iron ore fines in lower-emission ironmaking routes. 

“The project will provide important learnings as Fortescue works towards developing a pathway for green iron production at scale using Pilbara ore. We are proud to support Fortescue in this pioneering work,” said Piia Karhu, president of minerals at Metso.