OREANDA-NEWS. September 6, 2012. Sesa Goa Limited ("Sesa or "the Company") has received directions from Goa State Pollution Control Board ("GSPCB") to stop the activity of the metallurgical coke plant (Expansion) due to two incidents of soot emissions owing to misfiring by two high capacity burners during commissioning of second battery of its metallurgical coke plant (Expansion) on August 17 & 18, 2012.

The Company has intimated GSPCB that the root cause of the soot emissions were immediately addressed and necessary corrective actions have already been taken.

Sesa remains committed to maintain highest standards of environmental safeguards and regrets the incident.

Sesa is India's largest producer and exporter of iron ore in the private sector. The company is a majority owned and controlled subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, the London listed FTSE 100 diversified metals and mining major. For more than five decades, Sesa has been involved in iron ore exploration, mining, beneficiation and exports. Sesa has iron ore mining operations in Goa and Karnataka. Sesa is developing the Western Cluster Iron Ore Deposits into a large integrated Iron Ore Project in Liberia. Sesa is also into manufacturing pig iron and metallurgical coke, with a 0.56 mtpa metallurgical coke plant and a 0.625 mtpa pig iron plant in Goa.