Resource base
The Syradasaiskoye deposit is one of the largest coal deposits in the world. Its resources are estimated at 5 bn tonnes.
Key facilities
The open pit coal mine
The output of the open pit coal mine:
Stage 1: 5 mn tonnes
Stage 2: 10 mn tonnes
The refinery
Commercial grade KZH, K, KO concentrate with a yield of 60–70% and ash content of up to 10%
Infrastructure facilities
A 61-km long motorway
Conveyor transport:
cargo turnover of 5–7 mn tonnes per year
Power plant:
power rating of 30 MW
A rotation camp for staff
The Yenisei Sea port
with a cargo turnover of up to 10 mn tonnes per year
Taimyr Airport
types of aircraft: An-12, An-24, An-26, An-74
Technical solutions
As it implements the project, Northern Star is using cutting-edge mining, refinement and transportation technologies aimed at eliminating environmental risks and minimising human impact on the environment.
A linear-radial type ship loader
with a capacity of 4,000 tonnes of cargo per hour
Key specifications:
- The technologies used meet all European environmental standards.
- The machine can be used in cities and towns.
- The machine doesn't have to be shut down in windy conditions.
- The machine is assembled at the port after pre-fabrication, components are delivered to the construction site on a barge.
The coal dust power plant
with a capacity of 30 MW
Key specifications:
- Unique, environmentally friendly fuel burning process.
- The boilers run on coal dust made from the commercial product obtained as a result of the coal refinement.
- The power plant utilises unique reverse draft burners to maximise fuel combustion and minimise the amount of ash left over once the fuel has burned up.
- The power plant comprises several power generation units and the power output can be easily increased by installing and connecting additional power generation units.
- The ash is collected in a cyclone-type ash capture unit, whose contents are then dumped into a trailer tank and removed from the power plant for disposal.
- The coal dust and air mixture are burned in a burner that has air and coal dust fed into it.
The main conveyor
(when raw coal production of 10 mn tonnes a year is achieved)
Key specifications:
- An enclosed product transportation system
- Coal moves in an enclosed space from start to finish with zero contact with the environment
- Productivity: 10 mn tonnes a year, about 3,000 tonnes per hour
- The length of the conveyor belt: 60 km
- The number of conveyor load-bearing components: 4
- The conveyor is enclosed along its length
- Reinforced concrete piles
The Yenisei Sea port
- Wharf length — 250 metres
- Connecting dam length — 1,461 metres
- Territory — 20 ha
- Depths of up to 16 metres to enable handling of vessels of up to 100,000 tonnes:
- First stage: 11 metres
- Second stage: 16 metres*
* Provided additional dredging is carried out
- Cargo handling capacity of 10 mn tonnes:
- Stage 1: 5 mn tonnes
- Stage 2: 10 mn tonnes
- A 0.5 mn tonne warehouse, stage 2 — 1 mn tonnes
Finished product logistics
The product is planned to be transported year-round by bulk carriers with a deadweight of ≈100 thousand tonnes.
Technical characteristics of the vessels to be used:
- width — up to 43 m
- power — over 14 MW
- maximum draft — 15 m
- deadweight — 95–100 thousand tonnes
- ice class — A1
- Ice-breaking tugboats of a class of at least Arc6/Icebreaker6
Finished product logistics
The product is planned to be transported year-round by bulk carriers with a deadweight of ≈100 thousand tonnes.
Technical characteristics of the vessels to be used:
- width — up to 43 m
- power — over 14 MW
- maximum draft — 15 m
- deadweight — 95–100 thousand tonnes
- ice class — A1
- Ice-breaking tugboats of a class of at least Arc6/Icebreaker6
