The reconstruction of a hydrometallurgical plant (Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region) is estimated at UAH 400 million, Director General of Skhidny ore mining and processing enterprise, Oleksandr Sorokin, has said.
"The reconstruction is assessed at some UAH 400 million," he said at a press conference on Thursday.
He said that currently the processing capacity of the hydrometallurgical plant is twice more than the volumes of raw materials supplied to the plant.
"We'll slightly reconstruct the Zhovti Vody plant and load it in full," the director said.
Sorokin said that the enterprise does not plan to build a hydrometallurgical plant near the Novokostiantynivske uranium field (Kirovohrad region), but it plans to build a heap leaching facility.
"The idea is the following: high grade concentrate will be shipped to Zhovti Vody, and one third of extracted concentrate [from the Novokostiantynivske uranium field] will be processed at the heap leaching facility here, so one third of uranium will be produced here," he said.
Sorokin added that industrial waste will be deposited back to the depth of the mining.
"On one hand, we'll optimize the process and minimize expenses, and on the other hand we do not increase ecological burden on the territory of Kirovohrad region," he said.
