Sukhaya Balka mine (Krivoy Rog, Dnipropetrovsk Region), part of Oleksandr Iaroslavskyi's DCH group, increased production of commercial iron ore by 1.8% up to 1 million 551.768 thousand tons in January-July this year, compared to the same period last year.
The company told Interfax-Ukraine that the mine produced 226,500 tons of marketable ore in July.
As reported, the Sukhaya Balka mine in 2020 reduced production of marketable iron ore by 6.3% year-on-year to 2 million 554.230 thousand tons.
"Sukhaya Balka specializes in underground mining of iron ore. Mine capacity is approximately 3.1 million tons of commercial ore per year. The mine includes the Yubileinaya and Frunze mines. Frunze. The mine employs approximately 3,500 people. The mine supplies ore to Bogdanovsk Ore Treatment Plant (BOPP) of "Pokrovskiy GOK" PJSC (formerly Ordzhonikidze Mining and Processing Combine, Dnepropetrovsk region), which after a complex of preparatory measures switched to the production of iron ore sinter instead of manganese concentrate previously produced by the same equipment. After ore enrichment the obtained iron-ore sinter is supplied to Dneprovsky Metallurgical Plant (DMZ, formerly "Evraz-DMZ", like the mine, is a part of DCH Steel of DCH group).