JSC Lebedinsky GOK, Gubkin, Russia:

A. P. Mikhailov, Head of Grinding-and-Sorting Factory, strizhebokov_s_v@lebgok.ru
S. V. Strizhebokov, Chief Engineer of Grinding-and-Sorting Factory
E. V. Ushakova, Leading Specialist of Technical Department

The grinding-and-sorting factory of Lebedinsky GOK (Mining and Proocessing Plant) is the largest producer of crushed stone in central Russia. Since 1989 up to this day, the factory has produced more than 90 Mt of high-quality crushed stone for road making and construction. The factory’s customers are plants located in the Belgorod, Kursk and Orel Regions, as well as the production units of Lebedinsky GOK. The factory includes: a grinding-and-sorting installation for processing of crystalline schist from nearcontact zones (annual capacity 1380 thou t); a mobile grinding-and sorting plant to process crystalline schist and quartzitic sandstone (annual capacity 1760 thou t); a fixed automated quartzitic sandstone processing line (annual capacity 960 thou t); raw material reception and finished product shipment sections. The feedstock in the form of by-produced rocks is delivered from an open pit mine by process-specifi c trains to the factory’s intermediate stores wherefrom it is loaded in BelAZ dump trucks by shovels EKG-6.3 US and transported to receiving bunkers at processing lines. The end products are shipped in motor and rail transport by shovels EKG-4.6(5A) and front-end loaders. The feedstock and end product quality inspection is implemented by the Engineering Control Board of Lebedinsky GOK. The grinding-and-sorting factory successively expands, promptly responds to the call of the building material market and the needs of the GOK in terms of the crushed stone products, intakes new types of overburden rocks into production and takes a well-deserved place in the field of the integrated subsoil use.

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