The most common inorganic pigment is red iron oxide. Production of red iron pigment from Yakovlevskogo ore deposit is promising and will meet the demand for high quality and in-expensive pigment. Designed wasteless flowsheet for separation of iron ore in two qualities – paint grade quality (pigment) and metallurgical grade. The technology includes crushing, fine grinding ore in a ball mill and classification. The metallurgical grade of ore is used for metallurgical manufactures of briquettes.