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Kovdor Mining and Processing Plant (GOK) is located in the south-west of Murmansk Region's Kola Peninsula, 20 kilometers from the border with Finland, a region with a harsh climate where temperatures can drop to 30 degrees below Celsius in the winter.
In the Russian Federation, a phosphate fertilizer is produced from apatite of the
Kovdor phosphate rock deposit.
The fourth ship in the original group,
Kovdor, is currently thought to be in Malta, similarly stranded.
Kovdor Ore-Mining Integrated Works (
Kovdor GOK) is a mining subdivision of the EuroChem holding.
The two technological E-PG production streams using
Kovdor apatite (E-PGk) and the 10% E-PGK and 90% Morocco apatite E-PGM mixture were used in the investigation.
"Miscellaneous" cases (somehow the word seems too weak for the quality of the displays) included epidote from Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (Rice Northwest Museum); the
Kovdor Massif, Russia (Russian Museum); minerals of Indiana (Cincinnati Museum Center); minerals of Monte Somma, Italy (National Museum of Scotland); Tsumeb minerals (Bill Severance); uses and geological origins of olivine (Mineral Museum of Bonn, Germany); the New Almaden "quicksilver" mine, California's first mine (California State Mining and Mineral Museum); and, of course, many more.
Causes 1991 or 1992 (2) 1998 % Increase Circulatory disorder 338.2 472.9 39.8 Cancers 127.1 150.3 18.3 Including liver cancer 6.1 9.8 60.7 Accidents, poisonings 119.1 133.8 12.3 Including alcohol poisoning 16.2 6.3 -61.1 Including suicides 23.6 31.2 32.2 Tuberculosis 1.4 4.5 221.0 (1995-98) Respiratory disorder 17.6 20.9 18.8 Digestive disorder 21.8 23.7 8.7 (1) Cities included in the survey were Apatity, Kandalaksha, Kirovsk, Monchegorsk, Olenegorsk, Polyarnye Zori, and
Kovdor. (2) Data records were not entirely consistent.
Significant reserves have been discovered in complex carbonatite deposits (Afrikanda,
Kovdor) with perovskite-titanomagnetite and magnetite-apatite ores.