According to the official website of the Presidency of Guinea in West Africa on September 19, the Simandou project, a giant iron ore project in Africa, has commenced its first batch of iron ore mining operations. On September 14, Djiba Diakité, Director of the Office of the Presidency of Guinea and Chairman of the Strategic Committee, led a large delegation to the project site to witness the trial of the first mining operations, marking a substantial step toward the project's goal of starting operations by the end of the year. According to the official website, stackers and reclaimers have been put into use in Blocks 1 and 2 of the Simandou project. The deployment of this equipment signifies the beginning of initial iron ore stacking operations and prepares for upcoming commercial mining. In this block, the first phase is planned to extract 4,000 tons of iron ore per hour, increasing to 8,000 tons per hour in the second phase. Data shows that the Simandou project, located in southeastern Guinea, Africa, is the world's largest known but undeveloped high-grade iron ore project. The project has a reported standard resource of 4.41 billion tons, with an average iron ore grade of 65.5%. Once in production, it can initially produce 120 million tons of high-grade iron ore annually. Its abundant reserves may potentially alter the current global iron ore supply landscape.