President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has visited the Navoiy state ore extraction institute. Here a ceremony has been held to start the construction of the Navoiy ore extraction and metallurgy combine’s hydrometallurgy plant No 5 on the basis of the Auminzo-Amantoy gold deposits. 

At the Navoiy ore extraction and metallurgy combine, like in all the branches of the country’s industry, modernization work is being done. 

At the initiative of the President, 27 projects are to be carried out at the combine in 2017-2026. The hydrometallurgy plant is one of the most important of these projects. 

This 396 million-dollar project will make it possible to process 5 million tonnes of ore a year and to create nearly 5 thousand 300 new jobs. 

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev emphasized the great socio-economic importance of this new hydrometallurgy plant. 

The Head of State pushed a symbolic button there to start development work in the Auminzo-Amantoy deposits. This event was watched via videoconferencing by specialists of the combine in Tomdi District’s territory where hydrometallurgy plant No 5 is to be built. 

Labour veteran Bahodir Boronov; a student of the Navoiy state ore extraction institute, Gulchiroy Jorayeva; and others expressed gratitude to the President for being the initiator of this large industrial enterprise and for starting its construction. 

The Head of State considered projects there relating to the establishment of Navoiy Region’s department of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 

A Presidential resolution dated 17 February 2017 “On measures to further improve the work organization, management and financing of scientific research and the work of the Academy of Sciences” will be the basis for the start of the work of the regional department of the academy. It will specialize in doing fundamental, practical and innovative research directed towards the technological and social development of the territory of Navoiy. It will have 5 scientific laboratories working there. 

This scientific centre, which will start working in the third quarter of this year, will make a big contribution to developing scientific and production integration and to training highly qualified specialists at the Navoiy state ore extraction institute. 

Scientific knowledge and innovation are essential for industrial development, the President said. The establishment of the Academy of Sciences’ department here is a requirement of life itself. Its purpose is to reduce the cost of production and raise its competitiveness on the basis of scientific knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research in line with modern requirements and to improve the laboratories’ work. All this research should be forward-looking. 

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev looked at projects to be implemented at the Navoiy ore extraction and metallurgy combine in the next few years. 

In the years 2017-2026, 27 projects will be implemented at the Navoiy ore extraction and metallurgy combine. The implementation of these projects worth 3 billion 63 million dollars will raise the combine’s production capacity by 30 per cent and create nearly 31 thousand additional jobs. 

The development of the Pistali deposit, the construction of hydrometallurgy plant No 6, the expansion of the capacity of hydrometallurgy plant No 2, the fifth phase of the development of the Muruntov field and other projects were also presented.