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The document was drafted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in execution of presidential instructions. The Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency (Rosnedra) has conducted a tender for the right to use a mineral deposit, which includes the southern sector of the Norilsk-1 ore field, in accordance with Government Directive No 66-r dated January 27, 2012.
The directive was drafted based on provisions of Article 101.1 of the Federal Law On Mineral Resources.
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During the tender, the commission on tenders held two meetings. After the April 9, 2012 meeting of the commission on tenders, whose participants examined bidding materials and their supplements, the commission ruled that the documents were submitted on time, and that they met the tender requirements.
Participants accepted the bids of the Norilsk Nickel Mining & Metallurgical Company, the Gaisky Mining and Processing Integrated Works and the Amur Prospecting Team.
The technical and economic parameters of exploiting this mineral-deposit section are among the major winner-selection criteria. Two bidders – the Norilsk Nickel Mining & Metallurgical Company and the Amur Prospecting Team – have submitted the relevant feasibility studies. At its concluding meeting of June 15, 2012, the commission recognised these legal entities as tender participants.
The participants in the concluding commission meeting heard bidders who submitted feasibility studies with regard to exploiting this mineral-deposit section.
After examining, assessing and discussing the feasibility studies with regard to exploiting this mineral-deposit section, the commission selected the Amur Prospecting Team as the winner for submitting the best feasibility studies for developing this mineral-deposit section. The winner who will exploit this mineral-deposit section, which includes the southern sector of the Norilsk-1 ore field, undertakes to create over 3,000 jobs, to invest about 1.85 billion roubles in housing-construction projects for corporate workers, and to build five pre-school education institutions for 200 children each and a sports and health-improvement facility. The winner also offered a more optimal engineering solution during the mine-construction process, pledging to enrich the ore produced, to extract additional amounts of the required metals, to improve the concentrate quality, to extract all mineral-deposit reserves, including surplus reserves, and to cut sulfur emissions. The commission members selected the Amur Prospecting Team as the winner by a majority vote.