Rosgeo and Mechel PJSC have signed an Agreement of cooperation in the field of subsoil use, within the Eastern Economic Forum, today.

Sergey Gorkov, Director General, Chairman of the Board of Rosgeo, and Oleg Korzhov, Director General of Mechel, signed this document.

Under the Agreement, the Parties intend to cooperate in the implementation of the projects on prospecting, assessing, exploring new high marketable mineral deposits, and their consequent development and operation in the Russian Federation and abroad.

Based on the Agreement the Parties will have an opportunity to establish joint ventures for the implementation of the projects on prospecting, evaluation and further development of discovered deposits.

Besides, the Parties have agreed that Rosgeo and Mechel would consider the issues of update, re-evaluation and in-mine exploration of the reserves in the currently non-exploited (suspended) deposits to put them into commercial production, within the framework of joint projects.

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Rosgeo is a Russian multi-industry geological holding company, which offers a full range of geological exploration services: from regional surveys to stratigraphic drilling and subsoil monitoring. The holding company boasts a unique expertise, particularly in marine geology and shelf operations. A total of more than 1,000 fields and deposits have been discovered by the holding’s companies, including major hydrocarbon and solid mineral deposits and fields. Rosgeo is a fully state-owned company.

Mechel is a global mining and metallurgical company. The Company's products are delivered to Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa. Mechel comprises the coal, iron ore, steel, rolled steel, ferroalloys, heat and electric energy producers. All the companies are integrated into a single production chain: from raw materials to higher-value added products.