Ilmenit will start working in December

“The Tugan Mining and Processing Plant Ilmenite will start operating in accordance with the agreed construction schedule in the IV quarter of 2021,” said Andrey Kabanov, General Director of the enterprise.

The construction of the first full-scale production in the direction of rare and rare-earth metals within the framework of the roadmap of the Russian Federation "Technologies of new materials and substances" is being completed in the Tomsk region. The processing capacity will ensure the stability, safety and security of supply of strategically important concentrates - zirconium, titanium and rutile-leucoxene for the needs of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom and other large Russian enterprises. Also JSC TGOK Ilmenite plans to produce more than 300 thousand tons of glass and fractionated sands.

As of today, the construction and installation works of production buildings and auxiliary facilities have been completed at the construction site, the installation of technological and engineering equipment is at the finish line, commissioning works have begun in several shops.

Financing of the project with a limit of over 500 million rubles. is run by United Uranium Enterprises LLC (OUP LLC, part of the management loop of the Mining Division of Rosatom State Corporation). This allows OUP LLC to receive a 25% stake in TGOK Ilmenit JSC, with the right to further increase the share. “The support of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom will allow the enterprise to be launched in accordance with the agreed construction schedule in the 4th quarter of 2021,” says Andrei Kabanov.

Currently, within the framework of the first stage of construction, the Yuzhno-Aleksandrovsky area of the Tugan deposit is being developed, and a mining and processing plant is being built to process 575 thousand tons of ore sands per year. In case of confirmation of demand for products, it is possible to create additional stages within the framework of the development of the Kuskovo-Shiryaevsky area in order to increase the production capacity to 6.9 million tons of ore sands per year.

Source: http://www.niatomsk.ru/