By Jose Alberto Villa Mena, Chief Engineer, Peña Colorada and Ernesto Vivas, Principal Advisor, Hexagon Imagine everything you interact with on a daily basis that is fully or partially made of steel. With 98% of iron ore being used for steel production, it’s not surprising that the world uses 20 times more iron than all other metals put together. Peña Colorada, in Colima, Mexico, is a significant player in the iron ore industry, producing 30% of Mexico’s iron ore at an open pit mine in Minatitlan and a pellet plant in Manzanillo. At SME’s annual MINEXCHANGE conference in Denver, Jose…