Investment projects on creation of the entities and productions based on mineral deposits are being implemented in Belarus. In particular, last year an investment agreement was concluded, under which by 2019 together with CJSC Soligorsk Institute of resource-saving problems with pilot production a crushed-stone plant would be constructed on the basis of the Glushkovichsky deposit of building stone. According to investor’s forecasts, the planned amount of extraction and realization of stone will make at least 800 thousand tons per year.
Based on the Petrikovsky potassium salt deposit (JSC Belaruskali), Nezhinsky, Smolovsky and Lyuban sites of the Starobinsky deposit (Slavkaly) ore-dressing complex will be put into service, which total production capacity of potassium fertilizers extraction, will reach 15.1 million tons per year.
With the increase in new capacities of RUPP Granit on production of granite crushed stone, due to the commissioning of Sitnitsky deposit, the import of this raw material, which amounted to 13.5 million dollars in 2015, will be completely stopped. Minister of natural resources and environmental protection of Belarus Andrey Kovkhuto told: “Investors are also interested in deposits of construction materials, projects on water, amber”.
“Now we offer investors a number of promising oil shows. They are at a distance from the extraction system that exists at Belorusneft today. There are deposits which development requires application of new technologies. It is what we especially wait for”.
“The state interest is in intensifying mining operations. In Belarus there is a need of attracting investors with modern technologies. For example, in Belarus mineral white, iron ores are not extracted so far. We are waiting for the investors who will be able to make such extraction cost-efficient,” Andrey Kovkhuto emphasized. “We should show the investment appeal of the Belarusian subsoil. We have decided to adjust work with embassies in this direction; we prepare site visits for potential investors.”
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