Shougang Hierro Peru runs the Marcona iron-ore complex in the Ica desert, an open-pit mine, a beneficiation plant and a private port at San Nicolás bay, all owned by China's Shougang Group. This page is about where an explosion proof mobile phone is relevant at Marcona in Peru, and what the company's HSE and procurement teams will ask of any supplier of handsets for classified areas. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · certification and vendor documentation in progress
Marcona is not a copper mine, and the difference matters. Shougang Hierro Peru's complex is described in its own technical material as three main operating areas, Mina, San Nicolás and San Juan, with auxiliary facilities at Jahuay and an office in Lima. Open-pit mining feeds crushing and transfer systems, and the beneficiation plant near San Nicolás uses magnetic separation, grinding and flotation to remove copper, zinc, lead and other sulphides and bring the iron concentrate to specification. A concentrate expansion of around 10 million tonnes a year in the newer area was completed in 2018. Products are pellet feed, sinter feed, fines and lumps, mostly sold to Asia, and they leave through the San Nicolás terminal, a private port handling solid and liquid bulk. Magnetite handling creates dust, the flotation step brings reagents into the plant, and a port that moves liquid bulk brings flammable-liquid hazards with it.
The Ica coast is dry, windy and salty. Nothing about it resembles the high Andes, and the choice of handset follows the place. The IS-04Z1 is designed for Zone 1 and Zone 21 and has IP68 sealing; certification is in progress and no certificate has yet been issued.
Pit, plant and port all sit within reach of the Pacific coast, so connectors and housings meet salt and abrasive sand at once. IP68 sealing is relevant to both, and cleaning between shifts is worth building into the roll-out.
Magnetite ore and iron concentrate behave differently from copper-zinc concentrate. The Zone 21 design target addresses combustible dust generally, and the operator's own dust testing decides which areas are classified.
Where a terminal handles liquid cargo, flammable atmospheres can appear around transfer points and tanks. That is a Zone 1 and Zone 2 question for the port's own classification drawings.
Marcona has run for decades under several owners. Vendors meet established procedures and an incumbent supplier list, so documentation has to be complete and the case for change has to be clear.
Pit, plant and port are separate places with different shift patterns. Android Enterprise enrolment lets one IT team manage handsets across all three from an existing MDM console.
Operators move through grinding, magnetic separators and flotation cells recording readings and photographing faults. A rugged handset for classified areas replaces separate radios, cameras and clipboards.
Staff at the San Nicolás terminal coordinate vessels, conveyors and fuel transfers. A managed handset carrying permits and contact lists keeps communication within the controlled area.
Technicians along the crushing and conveying systems log faults and photograph worn components. GNSS records where the fault is across an extensive site.
Company descriptions we reviewed cover the mine, the beneficiation plant at San Nicolás and a private port. We have not confirmed the internal transport arrangements, so ask the operator how material moves between areas and which of those routes carry classified-area rules.
Parts of it can. Where fuel or other flammable liquids are transferred, stored or vented, the port's own classification study defines the zones. Dry bulk areas raise dust questions instead.
No. Both have Chinese state-owned parents, but they are separate companies with different commodities, sites and procurement processes, so a conversation with one does not carry to the other.
Ask the HSE and procurement teams which area classification drawings, certificate types and vendor documents they require, and which areas are in scope. No SAMS certificate has been issued, so any evaluation starts with documents.
Tell us the site, the zone and gas group, and roughly how many handsets. The SAMS team replies by email with the datasheet and the certification schedule for Peru. The IS-04Z1 is pre-launch and certification is in progress, so there is no list price yet; indicative pricing is issued in writing against a stated quantity and site.
Tell us the zone, gas group and operator. We will send the datasheet and the certification schedule for your market.
