EuroChem ? DE RU EN Feeding the world Our business is driven by the world’s increasing need for food. Our objective is simple: to help the world’s farmers improve crop yield and quality News Tweets YouTube EuroChem Acquires Argentinian Fertilizer Distributor Emerger Fertilizantes CALCIUM AMMONIUM NITRATE CAN - the high-efficiency nitrogen fertilizer View All Our value chain Creating value at every step of the production chain. Our business model underpins our global competitiveness and ensures the sustainability of our business. Learn more Investment case Exceptional strategic vision and significant expansion plans. No other company of this scale in our sector boasts a comparable potential for organic growth. Find out more Global operations We have an international presence across key markets supported by direct distribution in Europe, the CIS, the USA, Latin America and Asia. Production assets Offices Logistics At a glance $4.4b sales in 2016 13.6 MMT Fertilizer sales volumes 25,000 employess worldwide Sustainability Key to our ability to deliver long-term value is our commitment to building a sustainable business, with a clear strategy for economic, social and environmental development. Find out more Careers Our people make EuroChem the leading company it is today. Find out more Reporting centre Cookies Policy Sitemap Glossary Terms of use © Copyright 2016

EuroChem ? DE RU EN Projects: Fertilizers Mining Home > What we do > Project > Mining Kovdorskiy GOK PRINT DOWNLOAD PDF: Our Kovdorskiy GOK integrated mining and processing facility underpins our phosphate production chain. Boasting a P2O5 content of between 37% and 38% with very low cadmium content, it is also the only phosphate mine in the world to be blessed with iron ore and baddeleyite embedded in the same deposit. In 2016, we produced 2.7 MMT of apatite concentrate and 6.3 MMT of iron ore concentrate and 7,840 tonnes of baddeleyite concentrate as co-products. While providing a considerable credit to our apatite costs, these co-products also provide a hedge against fertilizer price volatility. However, our apatite production, in its current configuration from Kovdorskiy-GOK, is at full capacity and unable to fully cover EuroChem’s own feedstock requirements. While we are proceeding with the development of phosphate rock mining capacity in Kazakhstan to assist us with our feedstock needs, we are also taking steps to significantly increase Kovdorskiy GOK’s capacity. We have developed mine plans and schedules which encompass several development phases. We completed the first phase of our expansion project by increasing beneficiation capacity from 15 MMT to 18 MMT of magnetite-apatite ore. The next phase will see capacity expanded to 20 MMT of ore. A third phase, which could possibly bring capacity to as much as 25 MMT per year, is currently being reviewed together with several initiatives to improve transportation costs and conveyance costs of overburden and ore to the mill as well as improving overall maintenance costs and reliability. Kovdorskiy GOK Related projects: Usolskiy Potash VolgaKaliy Potash Kazakhstan Cookies Policy Sitemap Glossary Terms of use © Copyright 2016