Karelsky Okatysh mine

Karelskiy Okatysh mine

Location
Location	Republic of Karelia
Republic	Republic of Karelia
Country	Russia
Production
Products	Iron ore, pellets
History
Opened	1982
Owner
Company	Severstal
Website	http://www.kostomuksha.ru/rus/index.phtml

The Karelskiy Okatysh mine is a large iron mine located in the northwest of Russia in the Republic of Karelia. Karelskiy Okatysh represents one of the largest iron ore reserves in Russia and in the world having estimated reserves of 1.29 billion tonnes of ore grading 63.2% iron metal.^[1]

Products

The mine produce about 10.6 million tonnes of high quality iron pellets annually.

Technologies

The mine is using 3D CAD mine planning software for quality and volumes control. Fully integrated with fleet management systems for the dump truck flow optimisation. Drills fleet equipped by high precision system for navigation and data integrity for blast optimization. The high precision system on excavators are used for ore quality management from slaughtering to stockpiles. High precision dozer systems working to improve quality, reduce costs in road maintenance and construction.

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