Kovdor Ore Dressing and Processing Enterprise, Kovdor, Russia:

Sedinin D. F., Head of the Project Office, e-mail: Dmitriy.Sedinin@eurochem.ru

Teslya A. S., Director on Production

Ustimov V. K., Head of the Crushing Plant

Eryukhin N. V., Specialist of the Project Office

«TOMS-project» Company, Saint Petersburg, Russia:

Lagutin P. G., Chief Engineer of the Project

The crushing plant is the first part in the processing and concentration technology of the baddeleyte-apatite-magnetite ores, extracted in the main open pit of Kovdor Ore Dressing and Processing Enterprise. This plant includes: ore breaking and conveyor complex in the open pit, which provides the coarse breaking of ore and its delivery into the building for average and fine breaking; building for average and fine ore breaking to the coarseness by minus 15–20 mm with its delivery into the building of magnetiteconcentration plant for crushing and following concentration; continuous handling system — the heavy belt conveyors and feeders with the dumping stations and facilities.

The article shares two basic investment projects: reconstruction of the buildings for average and fine breaking; new construction of the mechanized homogenizing stockpile of finely-broken ore.

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