Uzbekistan land is rich in mineral resources and precious metals, including gold, copper, lead, molybdenum, silver, tungsten and zinc. One of the metals mostly needed in the country is copper.
Early this year, for expanding production capacity of non-ferrous and precious metals based on Almalyk MMC JSC fields by 60 million tons per year, a project has been developed for construction of a copper concentrating plant complex No. 3 with full production cycle. The project customer is Almalyk MMC JSC. The contract with the customer for "Engineering, procurement and construction of the Copper Concentrating Plant complex MOF-3 (Rus. translit.) and CPT-ore on the basis of Almalyk MMC JSC" has been signed.
Implementation of this project is in full swing. Today, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev visited Yoshlik-1 deposit of the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (AMMC) and held a capsule-laying ceremony for construction of the third copper concentrating plant.
Phase 1 of the first stage of expanding production of non-ferrous and precious metals on the basis of Almalyk MMC JSC deposits provides for the construction of copper concentrating plant No. 3 (MOF-3) with annual production and processing capacity of 60 million tons of ore, with copper content in copper concentrate in a volume of more than 166 thousand tons, molybdenum in molybdenum concentrate - more than 600 tons, gold in gold concentrate - 15 tons. With implementation of this project AMMC, the monopoly copper producer in Uzbekistan, is planning to expand its productive potential, namely, to increase copper production by 2.1 times by 2026. Implementation of this project contributes to the socio-economic development of the region and increase in employment. The volume of copper production for the domestic market needs is also expected to increase, the share of copper production in the markets of Uzbekistan and CIS countries, namely, increase in foreign exchange earnings due to export of products.
Preliminarily, completion of construction, installation and pre-commissioning work is scheduled for December 31, 2024.