The Sevuralboksitruda (split up as 'Sev. Ural Boksit Ruda', meaning 'North Urals Bauxite Ore Deposit') company is a very large
bauxite
Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium and gallium. Bauxite consists mostly of the aluminium minerals gibbsite (Al(OH)3), boehmite (γ-AlO(OH)) and diaspore (α-AlO(O ...
-mining concern in
Russia
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, owned by
RUSAL
United Company RUSAL, international public joint-stock company (russian: МКПАО «ОК РУСАЛ», MKPAO «ОК RUSAL») is the world's second largest aluminium company by primary production output (as of 2016). It was the largest until ov ...
. It is based in the town of
Severouralsk
Severouralsk (russian: Североура́льск, lit. ''(a town) in the Northern Ural Mountains, Urals'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vagran River (Ob River, Ob's drainage ...
in
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...
, and works bauxite deposits in Cheryomukhovsky, Kalyinsky and Novokalyinsky, including the "Krasnaya shapochka" ('little red riding hood') deposit which was discovered in 1934. It extracted more than 3.8 million tons of bauxite in 2000, which were processed at the Bogoslovsky and Urals
aluminium plants.
Mining companies of Russia
Rusal
Companies based in Sverdlovsk Oblast
Mining companies of the Soviet Union
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