Création d' une joint venture à 50/50 entre les 2 pays.
La Russie n' a pas pour vocation d' importer tout ce minerais, pour la bonne raison que la Russie en regorge déjà. L' exportation est visée.
Les présidents Russes et Mongols étaient à la signature de l' accord !
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsw ... ?id=435751Russia and Mongolia have signed an agreement to create a joint venture for the exploration, production and processing of uranium, Russian news agency, Itar-Tass, reported.
ULAN-BATOR, Aug 26
The document was inked after bilateral talks. The Russian and Mongolian presidents attended the ceremony.
"We are signing an inter-government agreement on the creation of a joint venture for the exploration, mining and processing of uranium. Russia has become the fist country with which Mongolia has signed a joint uranium contract. This is an important political signal," the Russian federal nuclear power corporation (Rosatom) chief, Sergei Kiriyenko, told the media here.
Kiriyenko said the joint venture was being created on the basis of parity interests.
He recalled that on March 17 Rosatom and Mongolia's Atomic Energy Agency signed an inter-departmental agreement stating that such ventures would be operated on the 50/50 principle.
Kiriyenko said the emerging joint venture would in the first place be interested in the Dornod uranium deposit, and also deposits in East Gobi.
"Dornod is of interest to us, because some 200 kilometres away from it there is our Priargun Mining and Ore Dressing Combine. This gives us a chance to create a unified infrastructure and use our specialists," the Rosatom chief said.
Besides, as Kiriyenko said there was the certainty that the Dornod deposit may prove greater than originally expected.
He refrained from speculating how much Russia would be prepared to invest in the Dornod deposit, adding that hundreds of millions might be at stake.
The Russian-Mongolian uranium mining joint venture may go operational in the near future.
"We believe that the main work to create a joint venture may be completed as early as this year," he said.
Mongolia's participant in the project is the state-run company AtomMon. Atomredmetzoloto will represent Russia.
The Rosatom chief said that all uranium the venture will produce will be exported, and not delivered to Russia.
"We have no aim of taking all mined uranium to Russia. Our own will last for a hundred years," he said.
Russia's uranium reserves, in subsoil deposits and already in stock, exceed a million tonnes. For this reason all uranium produced outside the country is meant for export.
Kiriyenko said it remained to be seen where the uranium from the Dornod deposit will be exported. A final decision is to be made by the joint venture. Russia has no intention of monopolising all uranium mining work in Mongolia.
"The newly-founded joint venture has become the last missing link we need to start commercial operation. We are aware that the Mongolian government will be cooperating not only with Russia, but with other countries, too," he said.
On Sept 1, ten specialists from Mongolia will begin a course of instruction in Russia in the exploration and mining of uranium.
