The Russian government has decided to decrease the rare-earth metals ore mining tax. According to the chairman of the government Dmitry Medvedev, this will stimulate the mining of rare-earth metals. The tax is proposed to be decreased from 8% to 4.8%. “Some types of rare-earth metals are of strategic importance. But the development of their…
The Russian government’s commission has approved a bill that reduces the rate of mineral extraction tax (MET) for production of rare and rare earth metals to 4.8% from 8%, the government said in a statement. “The bill suggests reduction of the MET rate to 4.8% from 8% applicable to production of ores of rare metals…
In 2023 the Vostok Engineering LLC intends to start transporting ore from the Tomtorskoye rare-earth metals deposits in Yakutia. By that time a 68-km long ice-road ferry will have been constructed. The road will run through the Krasnoyarsk region to the port of Khatanga, and then the ore will be transported via the Northern Sea…
Albert Avdolyan has completely cleared the salary debts to the employees of the Hydrometallurgical Works (510 people) in the amount of 27 million rubles and to Intermix-Met LLC (170 people) for 9 million rubles. Avdolyan has also become the sole owner of the Yuzhnaya Power Company. All these companies are a part of the privatized…
Vostoc Engineering LLC has finished prospecting works at the Burannyi site of the Tomtorskoye deposits in Yakutia and in autumn will start designing the plant. In late 2021 the company intends to start daylighting and in 2022 – commercial production. Tomtorskoye is one of the largest rare earth metals deposits in the world. Its resources…
The integrated chemical and metallurgical complex to produce titanium dioxide, rare and rare earth metals will be created on the basis of the Afrikandskoye deposits in Murmansk region. Investments might total 14 billion rubles. Some 2.5 thousand jobs might be created. When the project reaches full capacity, it could produce 75 thousand tons of titanium…
Laboratory of Innovative Technologies has become the first company on the territory of the ex-USSR to start processing rare-earth metals. Previously all concentrates have been processed abroad, and then returned back to Russia as oxides, metals and alloys. From now on Russia will be processing them itself. All the products manufactured will be sold on…
Germany may develop rare earth metals deposits jointly with Russia in the country, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich declared on November 29. “The international energy markets are unstable today, we had a period of a significant fall of prices for almost all commodities, and this led to a decrease of investment in the energy sector…
