:''Kryvbas'' ''may also refer to the

FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih Football Club Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih () was a professional Ukrainian football club based in Kryvyi Rih. Until 2013 the club participated in professional competitions. In June 2013 the club went bankrupt and was expelled from the Ukrainian Premier ...

, the football team in Kryvyi Rih. See also

Kryvbas (disambiguation) {{disambig Kryvbas may refer to: *Kryvbas mining region *FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih *FC Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih * HK Kryvbas *Kryvbas, village in Kryvyi Rih Raion Kryvyi Rih Raion ( uk, Криворізький район) is a raion (district) of Dniprop ...

Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Basin (; russian: Криворожский железорудный бассейн), commonly known by the

portmanteau A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordsKryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. Kr ...

, specializing in

iron ore Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, or deep purple to rusty red. The iron is usually found in the fo ...

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

steel industry Steel is an alloy made up of iron with added carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron. Many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels that are corrosion- and oxidation-resistant ty ...

and some

uranium ore Uranium ore deposits are economically recoverable concentrations of uranium Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 9 ...

mining in the past 20th century. It is arguably the main iron ore region of

Eastern Europe Eastern Europe is a subregion of the Europe, European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic connotations. The vast majority of the region is covered by Russ ...

Geography

Named after the city of Kryvyi Rih, the basin occupies the western part of the

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, obla ...

, as well as some small parts of the neighboring

Kirovohrad Kropyvnytskyi ( uk, Кропивницький, Kropyvnytskyi ) is a city in central Ukraine on the Inhul river with a population of . It is an administrative center of the Kirovohrad Oblast. Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name ...

and

Mykolaiv Mykolaiv ( uk, Миколаїв, ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Southern Ukraine, the Administrative centre, administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv city, which provides U ...

oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of ...

s, in a valley of

Inhulets The Inhulets () is a river, a right tributary of the Dnieper, that flows through Ukraine. It has a length of 557 km and a drainage basin of 14,460 km². The Inhulets has its source in the Dnieper Upland in a ravine (balka) to the wes ...

and

Saksahan The Saksahan is a river in Ukraine, in the southeastern part of the Dnieper Upland. It is a left tributary of the Inhulets (Dnieper basin), joining the Inhulets in the city of Kryvyi Rih. The name is derived, according to some sources, from the T ...

rivers (both are tributaries of the

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

).Pliushch, M., Hruzin, D.V.
Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Basin (КРИВОРІЗЬКИЙ ЗАЛІЗОРУДНИЙ БАСЕЙН)
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 2008 It stretches by a narrow strip (2–7 km) from north to south almost for 100 km from the town Zhovti Vody () to latitudes of the

river with total area of 300 sq km.

Facts

Kryvbas is a major center of

heavy industry Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); o ...

in Ukraine. The region has major deposits of iron ore and some other metallurgical ores. To exploit them, first mining international companies were founded there in the late 19th century, but then were replaced by several larger ones founded in the middle of the 20th century, most of them were located in Kryvyi Rih. The Kryvyi Rih city itself has 45 iron ore mines, 41

quarries A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their environ ...

, 89

stockpile A stockpile is a pile or storage location for bulk materials, forming part of the bulk material handling process. Stockpiles are used in many different areas, such as in a port, refinery or manufacturing facility. The stockpile is normally cre ...

s, 26 collapse and displacement zones in the fields of mines, 15

tailings dam A tailings dam is typically an earth-fill embankment dam used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue. Tailings can be liquid, solid, or a slurry of fine particles, and are usually highly toxic and potent ...

s, 27 spelestological objects (opened old adits, drifts, mines,

winze A winze is a minor connection between different levels in a mine. When worked upwards from a lower level it is usually called a raise; when sunk downward from a higher level it may be called a sump. The top of a winze is located underground and it ...

s, failed wells, etc.), 6 energy, 5 metallurgical, 28 machine-building and 5 chemical enterprises.
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Modern history

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (former Kryvorizhstal ( uk, Криворіжсталь) is Ukraine's largest integrated steel company, founded in 1934 and located in Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine. Bought in 2005 by Mittal Steel, the steel plant is on ...

is the largest and most up-to-date steel company in the region, and in the country. It includes ore facilities and a major

steel mill A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also be a plant where steel semi-finish ...

(the only one in the city). Other ore companies supply their raw materials to either ''AMKR'' or steel mills outside the region. With the exception of ''AMKR'', owned by

ArcelorMittal ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourgian multinational steel manufacturing corporation headquartered in Luxembourg City. It was formed in 2006 from the takeover and merger of Arcelor by Indian-owned Mittal Steel. ArcelorMittal is the second larg ...

, the steel companies of the region are controlled by either Rudomain LLC or

Metinvest Metinvest is an international group of steel and mining companies that owns operations in Ukraine, Italy, Bulgaria, the UK and the US, mines ore and coal, produces coke, smelts steel and produces rolled products, pipes and other steel products. T ...

. These were once state-owned industries. From the 1990s until 2004, after Ukraine declared independence and worked to establish capitalism, these industries went through difficulties and scandals as they became

privatized Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...

. A major

beneficiation In the mining industry or extractive metallurgy, beneficiation is any process that improves (benefits) the economic value of the ore by removing the gangue minerals, which results in a higher grade product (ore concentrate) and a waste stream (tail ...

works Kryvyi Rih Mining and Processing Plant of Oxidized Ores (KRMPPOO) ('' uk, Криворізький гірничо-збагачувальний комбінат окиснених руд, translit=KGZKOR'') was under construction in the early 21st century in the neighboring town of

Dolynska Dolynska () is a city in Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Dolynska urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: . It covers . Until 18 July 2020, Dolynska was the administra ...

(Kirovohrad Oblast). This hi-tech project is co-funded by the governments of Ukraine,

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

and

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

. In January 2022 it was announced that locally based company Rudomain LLC acquired the Ukraine-owned share in the project.

References

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Geography

Facts

Modern history

See also

Further reading

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