Russia's PhosAgro reports one killed by phosphate mine explosion

01 October 2009 13:04  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Russian fertilizer producer PhosAgro suffered an explosion at its Kirov phosphate rock mine last week in which one person was killed, according to company sources on Thursday.

The company would not comment any further on the incident, which reportedly took place on 25 September at the facility in the Murmansk region of northern Russia. There was no comment on the cause of the explosion, or how long repairs would take.

However, a PhosAgro spokesperson did state that production of phosphate fertilizers, which use phosphate rock as a feedstock, would not be affected.

PhosAgro owns Apatit, which exploits the Khibiny rock deposits in the Murmansk region adjacent to the Barents Sea. Rock is railed from four mines to various fertilizer production sites in central, eastern and southern Russia.

Rock production reached nearly 10m tonnes in 2008.

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