In 2012, a new mining and processing plant Garinskoye GOK (GGOK), with a capacity of not less than 10 million mt of iron ore per year, will start to be constructed in Russia's Far Eastern region of Amur.
The Russian gold and iron ore miner Petropavlovsk is creating a mining and metallurgical complex in the Amur region, which will include Olekminsky GOK, commissioned in May 2010 with a capacity of 900,000 mt of iron ore concentrate and 290,000 mt of ilmenite concentrate per year based on the Kuranakh iron ore deposit, Garinskoye GOK , as well as a mining and metallurgical plant with a capacity of at least one million mt of direct reduced iron (DRI) per year.