The development project is to be submitted in August or September 2011.
Meanwhile NLMK prepares to start construction of an ore-dressing complex of 4.5-m-t annual capacity to extract and process ordinary coal. The complex is planned to be launched in 2014.
Zhernovskoye hides 240 m t of GZhO-, GZh- and Zh-graded coal (according to Russian classification).