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Summary:
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Sverdlovsk Oblast government seeks a foreign
partner to participate in he development of the
Sredne-Timansky bauxite deposit in the Komi Republic and
access railway construction.
Russia's only ready-to-use source of bauxite is located the
Komi Republic.Thus the task of developing the
Sredne-Timansky bauxite deposit and use of these bauxite at
the Urals aluminum plants has become important on a federal
level.
Sverdlovsk Oblast government, the Komi Republic government,
the SUAL company and the Boxity Timana company are trying to
speed up development of the Sredne-Timansky deposit.
Sverdlovsk Oblast government is taking a share in building a
road to the quarry.The oblast government has signed an
agreement with the Komi Republic on cooperation in economy,
science, and culture and a separate agreement on the joint
development of raw materials for ferrous and non-ferrous
metallurgy of the Russian Federation.Together they have worked
out an integrated program to support and develop Urals
metallurgy using Komi mineral deposits. |
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Feasibility
study: |
The
feasibility study of the project 'Development of the
Sredne-Timansky Bauxite Deposit of the Capacity of 2,550
Thousand Tons of Bauxite a Year and an Access Railway' was
approved by the Expert Council of the Russian Federal
government June 16, 1999.
The Council recommended that the government support
this project and include it in a tender for state guarantees
when obtaining commercial credit.
The
Boxity Timana company has worked out a schedule of events to
develop the bauxite quarry and prepare, extract and transport
bauxite.Sverdlovsk and Komi governments are supervising the
execution of the schedule. |
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Results:
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The
following was accomplished in 1999:
- geological
survey confirmed potential extraction of up to 12 million
tons of bauxite a year;
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8 kilometers of a road, the quarry site cleared of trees;
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an automobile (railway) bridge across the river Vym designed
design of a railway stretch (3-14 kms) finished; order
issued to design the rest of the railway.
- December
30,1999 the project submitted to the Investment Project
Competition Commission of the Russian Federation Ministry of
Economics.
- construction
of 5 bridges finished and construction of the automobile
(railway) bridge across the river Vym begun.
Completion of this bridge will make it possible to
transport bauxite to the railway station even before
completion of the access railroad.
- the
intermediary ore stock warehouse built.
- a
railway car-loading park completed.
Bauxite
production is on the rise.
In winter 1999, Boxity Timana produced 379,916 tons of
bauxite. 330,921
tons were transported to the railway station.336,510 tons were
shipped to plants.
In 2000, the daily production will reach 4 - 4.5
thousand tons.As of April 1, 2000 they produced 405,000 tons
of bauxite.
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Seeking:
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Sverdlovsk
oblast government is seeking a foreign partner
to participate in the project. The schedule for the year 2000
envisages:
- speeding
up the completion of the first stage with the capacity of
500 thousand tons.
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Ore to be transported to the railway station by truck.
This requires 6.5 million USD to
build a motorway and 3.5 million USD to finish the
quarry. Also
2.3 million USD are needed to build workers' housing.
Altogether, the project needs 12.3 million USD.
- completion
of the bridge across the river Vym in October 2000
- completion
of the access motorway
in October-November 2000
- extraction
of 500 thousand tons of bauxite in 2000, getting ready to
produce 500-600 thousand tons in 2001
- construction
of a railway passage over oil and gas pipelines.
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Location:
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Russia's only ready-to-use source of bauxite is located
the Komi Republic. |
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