Resumen de EuroChem reveals phosphate expansion plans at Kovdor
The apatite-staffelite plant is capable of adding 948,000 tpa apatite concentrate and 130,000 tpa iron ore capacity to Kovdorskiy's operations and will bring the total annual apatite concentrate production capacity at the site to 3.4m tpa by 2018.
Further developments at the site - which would see an additional apatite-carbonatite section of the ore body extracted from 2024, reaching full production in 2027 - will ultimately take EuroChem's apatite concentrate production capacity at Kovdorskiy to a projected 4.24m tpa, while iron ore capacity will increase to approximately 7.75m tpa. These are respective increases on 2015's capacity of 49% and 36%.
EuroChem purchased the Kovdorskiy open pit mine and processing facility in 2002 and the site now produces 2.5m tpa apatite concentrate, 5.6m tpa iron concentrate and 8,000 tpa baddeleyite concentrate, the last of these being used in advanced ceramics, electronic ceramics, pigments and refractories.
