Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant, Gubkin, Russia
Yu. S. Alferiev, Chief Miner, alferjev_j_s@lebgok.ru
D. V. Kiselev, Head of Mine Group
Yu. A. Klimashevsky, Head of Engineering Office

Metalloinvest Management Company LLC, Moscow, Russia
E. V. Dokukin, Head of Department for Technical Appraisal of Production Maintenance and Modernization Projects

The history of Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant is inextricably connected with the development of metallurgy in the USSR and with the technological advancement in the area of iron ore production. The crude ore supplies base of the Plant is the two nearby deposits of ferruginous quartzite with the low iron content, mined with a single open pit. In 1964–1966 the processing technology was developed for this kind of ore, and construction of a mining and processing plant and an open pit mine was launched in 1967. The construction project was elaborated by the Tsentrogiproruda Institute with participation of the allied research establishments in the country. The article informs on the history of the open pit mine construction, on application of different schemes of getting access to ore, on the use of equipment assemblies, stage-wise gain in production capacity and on the sequence of development of Lebedinskoe and Stoilo-Lebedinskoe deposits over a period of 50 years. The authors formulate a list of objectives to be reached in the course of expansion of mining.

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