CRONIMET TO BUILD $60-$80-MLN COPPER PROCESSING PLANT IN ARMENIA
Interfax
Nov 5 2008
Russia
Germany’s Cronimet Mining plans to build a plant costing $60
million-$80 million in Armenia by 2015 to recover pure copper for
export from up to 30,000 tonnes of concentrate per year.
Cronimet, which owns 60% of Armenia’s Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum
Combine, plans to build the new processing plant close to the Kajaran
copper-molybdenum deposit, which the Zangezur combine develops,
Vardan Gevorkian, the mayor of Kajaran, told reporters.
Gevorkian said plans to build the plant, which would used the latest
closed-cycle technology to obtain pure copper, were discussed at a
meeting between Cronimet’s management and the Armenian president in
the middle of September. Cronimet chief Gunter Pilarsky said at the
meeting that $60 million-$80 million might be spent on the plant’s
construction.
Cronimet also owns 51% of OJSC Pure Iron in Armenia.
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