VLADIVOSTOK, September 2. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in a ceremony launching a number of industrial facilities on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).
In particular, Russia's first full-cycle copper mining and processing plant has been established in the Trans-Baikal region. The plant is located on the Udokan copper deposit, the largest in Russia and one of the largest in the world.
In 2023, the enrichment facility of the Udokan Mining and Metallurgical Plant was launched with the participation of the Russian President. Since then, the facility has produced over 700,000 tons of copper concentrate. The commercial product, sulfide copper concentrate, is supplied primarily to the domestic market, while the volume not absorbed domestically is exported. The hydrometallurgical facility of the Udokan Mining and Metallurgical Plant is being launched as part of this year’s Eastern Economic Forum. It will produce deep-processed products, premium-grade copper cathodes with a metal purity of 99.999%.
In the Primorsky Region (Nakhodka), construction and installation work has been completed on the Far East’s largest high-tech environmentally-friendly methanol production facility, with commissioning activities getting underway.
