Mineral and Chemical Company “EuroChem”, Moscow, Russia:

Petrik A. I., Head of the Department of Mineral Raw Materials Base Development, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, e-mail: Aleksander.Petrik@eurochim.ru

“VIOGEM” Institute, Belgorod, Russia:

Bykhovets A. N., Senior Researcher, Chief Geologist of Kovdor Ore Dressing and Processing Enterprise in 1992–2010, Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Kovdor Ore Dressing and Processing Enterprise, Kovdor, Russia:

Sokharev V. A., Chief Geologist

Murmansk Geological Prospecting Expedition, Murmansk, Russia:

Perein V. N., Chief Executive Officer

“Giproruda” Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia:

Serdyukov A. L., Chief Engineer

This article describes the process of the modernization structuring and development of mineral raw materials base of Kovdor Ore Dressing and Processing Enterprise, as well as the basic directions of the geological and technological research of natural and anthropogenic deposits to their phased preparation to rational and complex usage.

Since 1962, Kovdor Ore Dressing and Processing Enterprise has been developing the most large and unique deposit of multicomponent baddeleyte-apatite-magnetite ores. This deposit has large resources and provides the potential of tong term sustainable development of the enterprise (70 years and more) and social wellbeing of Kovdor populace.

The second large object of mineral raw materials base of Kovdor Ore Dressing and Processing Enterprise is the massif of apatite and carbonate ores, adjoining to the Southern boundary of the main open pit. According to the results of the geological and technological researches of last years, this massif includes: deposit of apatite and shtaffelite ores, which is not large and has not much reserves; apatite and calcite ores; calcite carbonatites.

Nowadays, the prospective mineral raw material resources of Kovdor Ore Dressing and Processing Enterprise include: the current wastes of concentrating production (sands); three dump storehouses of rock nonstaining apatite ores; the storehouse of complex, loose, half rock and rock apatite and shtaffelite ores; the dump storehouse of anomalous zone ores of the main deposit.

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