Baselcement develops new quarry

Baselcement-Pikalevo has announced that it has started to extract limestone from a new quarry near Leningrad in Russia. The new site at Zapadny will produce more than 800,000 tonnes of limestone a year when in full operation following opening of the second phase in 2011. The €10.6million investment will help the company meet demand for limestone from its alumina oxide facility. Baselcement is also working on developing a new quarry at Vostochny which would add 25million tonnes of limestone reserves.
March 29, 2012 Read time: 1 min

4565 Baselcement-Pikalevo has announced that it has started to extract limestone from a new quarry near Leningrad in Russia. The new site at Zapadny will produce more than 800,000 tonnes of limestone a year when in full operation following opening of the second phase in 2011. The €10.6million investment will help the company meet demand for limestone from its alumina oxide facility.

Baselcement is also working on developing a new quarry at Vostochny which would add 25million tonnes of limestone reserves.

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