Northern Iron Ore dressing Works (Northern GZK) ( uk, Північний гірничо-збагачувальний комбінат; russian: Северный горно-обогатительный комбинат) was built and launched in
Kryvyi Rih in 1963 and is one of several iron ore dressing complexes around
Kryvyi Rih. Along with
Ingulets Iron Ore dressing Works and
Central Iron Ore Enrichment Works, it belongs to Ukrainian holding company
Metinvest.
Description
The territory of the complex was selected back in 1953 on orders of the Soviet
Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy The Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy (Minchermet; russian: Министерство чёрной металлургии СССР) had been a government ministry in the Soviet Union.
History
The all-union commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy was establ ...
. In 1958 there was adopted resolution of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, – TsK KPSS was the executive leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, acting between sessions of Congress. According to party statutes, the committee direct ...
and the
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
The Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Совет министров СССР, r=Sovet Ministrov SSSR, p=sɐˈvʲet mʲɪˈnʲistrəf ɛsɛsɛˈsɛr; sometimes abbreviated to ''Sovmin'' or referred to as the '' ...
on construction of the complex. In 1963 the complex ore-dressing factory provided its first
ore concentrate. The complex was honored with the Lenin's
Komsomol of Ukraine. It became a key enterprise of the Soviet Military Industrial Complex.
It is one of the largest iron ore mining enterprises in
Europe, producing merchant concentrate with
Fe content of 68.4% and
pellets with Fe content of 60.5% and 63.5%. Northern GOK is a monopolist in the iron ore market in Ukraine, making up 45% of total iron ore pellets and about 20% of merchant concentrate.
Northern GOK incorporates:
* the Annovskyi and the Pervomayskyi
quarries, which in total constitute 3,807 Mtonnes of mineral resources
* cyclical-and-continuous crushing plant, launched in 2006
* two pellet plants
* auxiliary workshops
Awards
* Order of Lenin
* Order of Labour (Czechoslovakia)
Gallery
File:Модернизация производства 1.jpg, Crushing factory built in 2006 at the Pervomaisky Quarry
See also
*
List of metallurgical companies in Ukraine
References
External links
*
{{Metallurgical Industry of Ukraine
Metinvest
Mining companies of Ukraine
Mines in Ukraine
Mining companies of the Soviet Union
Kryvyi Rih