Mechel shipped the first batch of about 4,000 tonnes of iron ore from the Sivaglinsky deposit in Yakutia. By the end of the year it is planned to produce about 900 thousand tons of high quality ore at the deposit. From 2024 the annual production volume of blast-furnace and sintering ores will reach 1.25 million tons. Reserves of deposit for open-pit mining are estimated at 21 million tons of ore with average iron content of 48,6-53,3%.