Eastern Mining and Enrichment Combine (VostGOK)
Zheltiye Vody, Ukraine
47°55'N 33°24'E
Eastern Mining and Processing Combined Works Vostochny Mining and Ore-Dressing Combine (VostGOK) 2 Gorkii Street, Zheltiye Vody Dnepropetrovski Province 322530 Ukraine Telephone: +7 056 52-3-39-92 Telefax: +7 056 52-5-53-09
The Scientific and Industrial Association "Eastern Mining and Enrichment Combine" (SIA "Eastern MEC") succeeded the Eastern Mining and Enrichment Combine founded in 1951 on the basis of the Pervomaiskii and Zheltorechenskii uranium-containing iron ore deposits in the Kirovograd ore region in the Ukraine. The mines simultaneously extracted uranium and iron. At present the Association incorporates mining enterprises, an Hydrometallurgical processes (HMP) plant, a plant for production of sulfuric acid and some service enterprises. The top-priority lines in the Association's activities are mining of uranium and iron ores as well as production of iron ore and uranium concentrates and sulfuric acid. As of 1990, the enterprise stored 3770 thousand tons of unamenable ores and barren rocks in dumps with an area of 181.4 thousand m2.
At present, uranium is being mined in the Ingul'skii and Vatutinskii mines near Kirovograd. The ore is processed in the Zholtiye Vody and Dneprodzerzhinsk mills, both of which are operated by the Vostochny Mining and Ore-Dressing Combine (VostGOK). Ukrainian uranium production for 1992 was estimated at 1000 tonnes of uranium]. In April 1995, the Ukrainian government approved a nuclear fuel industry plan, scheduling a threefold increase of uranium production by the year 2003.
An underground leaching ground on the Bratskoe deposit is in the Nikolaev Region 10 km from the Bratskoe settlement. The deposit was in operation during 1971-89. The Association mined uranium by the UL method in the Devladovo and Bratskoe deposits from sedimentary rocks of the Buchak productive horizon enclosed between confining clay horizons. An underground leaching ground on the Devladovo deposit is at a distance of 5 km from the station of Devladovo, the Pridneprovskaya Railway. The deposit was in service in 1962-1983.
Sources and Methods
- MINING, PROCESSING AND ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM ORES INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER Project # 245 "Radleg"
- Nuclear Fuel Cycle in the Former USSR and in Russia: Structure, Possibilities, Prospects by Oleg Bukharin [Association for the Support of Nonproliferation], Moscow] 1993
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