On September 4th, a company owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov Holdings said it had begun construction of a large mining and metallurgical plant at the Udokan copper mine in a remote area in eastern Siberia. With a total copper reserves of approximately 26.7 million tons, it is the largest undeveloped copper deposit in Russia and one of the largest copper deposits in the world.
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