Foreign journalists will visit Ozernoye and Kholodninskoye deposits
On July 8-9, 2010 foreign journalists’ press tour to the
Republic of Buryatia including
Ozernoye and
Kholodninskoye deposits visiting will take place. The tour
objective is a presentation of the deposits as investment
projects for foreign capital markets.
Besides the visits to the deposits the
media-tour participants will take part in the Baikal Economic
Conference and presentation of the “Baikal Harbor” Special Economic
Zone of tourism and vacation type. Both events are devoted to
investing and will logically complement to the overall programme
of business trip to the Republic.
Press-conference with the participation of the Head of the
METROPOL Group of Companies M.V. Slipenchuk is to be held in the
territory of Ozerny GOK shift camp. It will become one of the
important elements of the press tour.
The press tour will give the journalists of the largest and most
influational English, French, Chinese and Japanese mass media an
idea of the investment potential of Buryatia, its basic
“growing points”, i.e. mining industry and tourism. They will
be provided with an opportunity to get a comprehensive
understanding of what and why attracts Asia-Pacific investors
in Buryatia by the examples of the «Baikal Harbour» investment
project in progress and the most perspective polymetallic deposits
in Russia – Ozernoye and Kholodninskoye deposits.
The MBC Corporation will publish tour results and main news on
its site after the press tour.
For information
Ozernoye and Kholodninskoye deposits accumulate zinc 47%
and lead 24% of total Russia’s reserves. The mining and processing
plant design and construction activities are launched at Ozernoye
deposit: the first stripping operations were carried out in October
2009, the mining enterprise will be put in operation in 2010.
The Group includes six battery plants and business units developing and introducing new technologies, and distributing products.
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