The advantages of the MATMOR Process over traditional blast furnace iron making are:

• Replacement of expensive metallurgical coal with cheap, abundant lignite
• The opportunity to replace expensive high grade Iron Ore (60%+Fe) with cheaper, low grade Iron Ore
• Able to recover iron from millscale and other waste materials
• Process requires significantly less heat / energy
• Capital cost less than traditional blast furnaces for equivalent production capacity
• Recirculation of waste gases minimises emissions
• Lignite, as a reductant, is up to 1000 times more chemically reactive than the black coal currently used in traditional primary iron production.

The advantages over alternate Iron making processes are:

• MATMOR is the only process we are aware of that can use lignite
• Economic at smaller scale
• Lower emissions
• Able to recover iron from waste streams such as millscale and nickel tailings