UC Rusal starts bauxites extraction at the deepest mine in Russia

​The “Cheremukhovskaya-Glubokaya” mine has become the deepest in Russia (1,550 m) and has entered the top-5 deepest mines of the world.

UC Rusal has started to extract bauxites at the deepest mine in Russia. This week the first complex of the “Cheremukhovskaya-Glubokaya” mine of the North-Ural bauxite mine was put into operation.

The total investment volume into the construction of the mine is over 5.8 bln roubles.

“For the first time within a decade a new mine has been discovered in the North Urals. We plan to extract up to 1.2 mln tons of bauxites a year at the “Cheremukhovskaya-Glubokaya” mine. This is about a half of the total extraction of the North-Ural bauxite mine”, CEO of Rusal, V. Solovied, said.

The launch of the “Cheremukhovskaya-Glubokaya” mine will allow Rusal to open the access to new ore layers and reduce the prime cost of bauxites at the North-Ural bauxite mine by 15% due to the optimization of technological processes on the transportation and ore handling.