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 (), boehmite (γ-AlO(OH)), and diaspore (α-AlO(OH) ...
-mining concern in
Russia
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, owned by
RUSAL. It is based in the town of
Severouralsk
Severouralsk (, lit. ''(a town) in the Northern Urals'') is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vagran River ( Ob's basin) at its confluence with the Kolonga River, north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the ob ...
in
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblastʹ, p=svʲɪrdˈlofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the c ...
, 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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