Future of Russian exploration13 Apr 2022 19:30
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https://interfax.com/newsroom/exclusive-interviews/77814/
‘The process will be organized as follows: the junior company conducts exploration, confirms the reserves, receives a certificate confirming the fact of field discovery, and then can sell this certificate. Then, a mining company, based on the certificate, gets a production license without bidding and pays a one-time fee for it.Previously, subsoil users did not have the right to sell licenses, you could sell only the company owning the license. Now the rules of the game have changed significantly, and they can take the exploration industry to a new level. A small company due to its finances and competence cannot develop the field it has discovered, but it can sell the license and make money on its exploration. Those regions and subsoil areas that big companies don't want to spend time and effort on exploring will ‘
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