Uzbekistan: NMMC starts building new hydrometallurgical plant

Uzbekistan’s Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Complex JSC started construction of the fifth hydrometallurgical plant at the Auminza-Amantai gold ore deposit. The country’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the plant’s groundbreaking ceremony on March 28. The new plant, worth $396 million, is expected to annually process five million tons of ore. Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Complex is…

Ukraine: court to hear lawsuit on termination of contract on ZTMK creation

Donetsk business court of appeals has satisfied a counterclaim of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) and ordered the business court of Zaporizhia region to hear the lawsuit of SAPO seeking the termination of the contract between the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) and offshore company Tolexis Trading Limited (Cyprus), a part of Dmytro…