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| | American Metal Market: Soviet 5-year plan: up iron ore output - Soviet Union report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Iron from the mine is moved through a slurry pipeline to nearby Stary Oskol where it is used as feed for the direct reduction facility which is to quadruple its capacity by the end of 1987. |
 | | Karpov said that total employment at the Gubkin facility, including the mine, beneficiation and pellet plants, was 12,600, with about 30 percent of the work force involved in maintenance. |
 | | The pellets from the Gubkin Works are sold to 16 steelworks, Karpov said, some to Lipetsk, a stop on the study tour, and to mills in the Ukrain and the Urals. |
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