Russian Copper Company to have to spend 28 bln rubles for protection of the ecology

The Russian Copper Company’s project of Tomino GOK has risen in price to $1.5 billion because of environmental innovations. The company will have to use technology of waste storage at the Korkinskom coal mine, reclamation of which is estimated at 28 billion rubles. But for a while there is no agreement on this with owner of the open-pit mine - Chelyabinsk coal company.

Russian Copper Company of Igor Altushkin is forced to move launch of the Tomino GOK in the Chelyabinsk region for a year and to change the technology of ore processing after the environmental audit of the project, the company’s president Vsevolod Levin told at Innoprom. The change in the technology will lead to a rise in the cost of the project "by 30-40%, this is less than 28 billion rubles", he added.