00:04Global demand for critical minerals is rising, placing resource-rich regions at the center of industrial growth and new economic
00:13opportunities.
00:15This is Business Line Uzbekistan. Hello and welcome.
00:20The country, with its rich geological regions, is actively developing rare and strategic metals.
00:26By 2030, the country plans to increase its annual production to 500,000 tons of copper, 155 tons of gold,
00:37500 tons of silver and 10,000 tons of uranium.
00:41Uzbekistan aims to launch 76 projects, targeting 28 rare minerals, with a total investment of more than 2 billion euros.
00:50International cooperation plays a crucial role in Uzbekistan's strategy.
00:56The European Union has signed Memorandums of Understanding on Critical Minerals with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan,
01:04aims to attract private investment into the region's mining and processing industries.
01:09Here is more.
01:11The Almalik Mining and Metallurgical Complex is one of Uzbekistan's and Central Asia's leading producers of copper,
01:18molybdenum, polymetallic and gold-bearing ores.
01:22It also ranks among the world's top 30 copper producers.
01:26We are in the Kalmakar Open Pit Mine, one of the largest copper deposits in the world.
01:31This massive site supplies millions of tons of copper ore each year, playing a key role in Uzbekistan's mining and
01:38metallurgical industry.
02:03At the Oshlikman deposit, key metals include copper, gold, silver, molybdenum and silver.
02:10And sulfur, rare elements such as rhenium, selenium and tellurium are also extracted here.
02:15This is Halkopirid, this is the gold-bearing, this is the main mineral of gold here.
02:22The mine stretches 4 km in lands, 2.3 km in weeds and reaches a depth of 250 meters.
02:39Another key component of the Almalik complex is the zinc plant.
02:44It produces zinc, cadmium, sulfuric acid, zinc oxide, copper clinker and zinc sulfate with annual zinc output reaching up to
02:53120,000 tons.
03:09To reduce environmental impact, a new sulfuric acid production unit is being launched.
03:16It will capture and process industrial gases that would otherwise be related into the atmosphere.
03:37With rising production and major investments, the mining sector is set to play a growing role in the global critical
03:44minerals supply chain.
03:48Joining us love is Oral Yusupov, Deputy Minister of Mining, Industry and Geology.
03:53Mr. Yusupov, thank you for being here.
03:56What new projects are planned in Uzbekistan?
03:58We have been in Uzbekistan.
04:01We have found a lot of the wall from the world.
04:04We have made a lot of graphite.
04:07We have made a lot of graphite and made a lot of graphite.
04:09From this point, we have been able to work with metal and metal metal.
04:15We have made a lot of graphite and metal.
04:22Das ist der Grund, dass wir im Jahr 2013, die Valfram-Kluster und die Malibdin-Kluster haben, um die Klasten
04:31und die Klasten zu tun haben.
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04:39-Mitallik.
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