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Article: Finland's Siilinjarvi plans expansion. (new apatite/phosphate minerals mine site)
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- Mining Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 1991
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Finland's Siilinjarvi plans expansion
Next year, 1992, Kemira Oy expects to set a new record for apatite production from Siilinjarvi, and is currently developing new mining areas. This operation, located in central Finland 25 km north of Kuopio, is the country's largest mine, and the only apatite mine in Western Europe. (Mining Magazine, August 1982, pp 93-99).
Capacity production is around 6.5 Mt/y of ore. In fact, 1990 output was 6.8 Mt of ore and 1.4 Mt of waste for the production of 546,134 t of apatite concentrate, 97,852 t of agricultural lime and 4,763 t of phlogopite mica. Kemira also sells some 30,000 t/y of waste rock for aggregate for local road ...