It is proposed to use beneficiation slimes of goethite-hydrogoethite ores as binding agents instead of bentonite in pellet production from concentrate of magnetite ores at Tagarskoe deposit. It is shown using chemical analysis, X-ray analysis, Mossbauer spectroscopy, thermal analysis, porometry and other methods of determination of metallurgical properties, that pellets with slime binding agents have better reducing ability, higher temperature of hematite dissociation and are characterized by slight decrease of cold strength. Calculation of blast furnace practice parameters with partial usage of pellets in charge materials with addition of 5 % slime and 0.5 % bentonite as binding agents has displayed that blast furnace parameters have not changed actually and saving of expensive bentonite is possible.

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