At the Las Truchas iron ore mine in Mexico, DRA has been contracted to provide detailed engineering and procurement services for the Las Truchas Revamp Project. DRA has worked with the customer ArcelorMittal at Las Truchas since initial concept stage in 2012 and already completed the Definitive Feasibility Study for the site. The project involves building a new iron ore concentrator and infrastructure for transferring the ore feed to the new facility. DRA will assist with the commissioning of the new concentrator and start-up assistance. Las Truchas is an open pit mine located 27 km from Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacán

The Las Truchas mine is an integrated iron ore operation. It began operating in 1976 as a government enterprise (Sicartsa), and its mining activities consist of an open pit mine exploitation, crushing, dry cobbing preconcentrate and concentration plant. The aggregate 2020 production of concentrate and lumps totaled 1.6 Mt. The concentrator includes one primary crusher, two secondary crushers and three tertiary crushers, two ball mill and two bar mill and two wet magnetic separation circuits. The electrical energy supplier for the Las Truchas mine is the state-owned power company, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). The concentrated ore is pumped from the mine site through a 26 km slurry pipeline to the steel plant facility in Lázaro Cárdenas.