MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Natural Resources Ministry has published a list of 87 mineral exploration licenses that it is to offer to the private sector.
The deposits on offer include an ore cluster in the Khabarovsk Territory of Russia's Far East, which contains an estimated 844,000 metric tons of copper. Two other copper deposits available in the same region are thought to hold 365,000 and 200,000 tons of copper respectively.
Elsewhere, the licenses include an 18,000 mt tungsten deposit in the Altai Territory of southern Siberia, and a diamond-rich deposit in European Russia's Arkhangelsk Region, where reserves are estimated at 30 million P3 category carats.
