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14/09/2009
Uzbekistan to auction over 150 natural resource deposits
Uzbekistan to auction over 150 natural resource deposits
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) --
Uzbekistan adopted decision to announce auctions on over 150 natural resource deposits, located in various parts of the country, in order to attract foreign investors, RIA Novosti reported quoting the State Committee on Geology and Mineral Resources of Uzbekistan.
The report said the deposits include such rare metals as wolfram, lithium and strontium. The country will also offer graphite, feldspar and fluor-spar, mineral salts, mineral dyes, phosphorite, rhodonite, etc.
The committee said the major part of deposits can be developed with open method with use of ordinary ore-dressing technology.
According to the data of the State Committee on Geology and Mineral Resources, currently over 2,000 deposits and over 1,000 perspective fields of mineral resources were revealed in Uzbekistan.
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