Mikhailovsky GOK today

Joint Stock Company «Mikhailovsky GOK» (JSC «Mikhailovsky GOK») is a part of the Mining Division of Holding Company METALLOINVEST - the largest and fastest growing mining and metallurgical company in Russia. Mikhailovsky GOK is the modern high-technology industrial complex that uses cutting-edge equipment and technique, as well as high-technologies for iron ore mining and processing.

Mikhailovsky GOK has been set up within Mikhailovskoye deposit, situated 100 kilometers to the north of Kursk. The deposit is a part of a large massive of ferruginous quartzites; its size is 6.5 x 2.5 km2.

The explored ore reserves of Mikhailovsky GOK are more than 11 billion tons, which ensures provision of the Plant with high-grade raw materials for uninterrupted operation for more than 300 years. Mikhailovsky GOK produces about 20 % of domestic iron ore output and 25 % of all-Russia pellets output.

While actively processing this wealthy raw material base, Mikhailovsky GOK annually increases its investments into modernization of the existing and new energy-saving technologies, thus providing the Enterprise with the possibility to expand its product range and to improve the quality of its products.

The main types of Mikhailovsky GOK products are as follows:
• Blast Furnace Ore (Fe content — 40–43 %).
• Sintered Ore (Fe content — 52 %).
• Concentrate (Fe content — 65.1 %).
• Dried concentrate (Fe content — 65.1 %).
• Blast Furnace concentrate (Fe content — 60 %).
• Pellets (Fe content — 63 %).
• Road Stone.

In the domestic market, key customers of Mikhailovsky GOK production are: Kosogorsky Metallurgical Plant, «Ural Steel» and Tulachermet Integrated works, ZapadnoSibirsky, Magnitogorsky, Chelyabinsky Metallurgical works, Severstal, Petrostal, Izhstal, Svobodny Sokol works.

Mikhailovsky GOK’s foreign partners are metallurgical enterprises of Czech republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. Iron ore production of the enterprise is shipped to Kazakhstan, Iceland and China. The geography of the export market is constantly expanding by means of increase in sales volume and expanding the client’s base.