• Created: 18.08.2022
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NMMC in the years of independence. Hydrometallurgical plant №3

✅ Hydrometallurgical plant №3 is the first largest industrial enterprise in the mining and metallurgical industry, built and put into operation in the first years of independence of Uzbekistan.

✅ HMP-3 was was put into operation on June 14, 1994. Today, the plant employs about 1.9 thousand people, enterprise processes more than 8 million tons of gold ore per year, mined at the Kokpatas and Daugiztau mines.

✅ In 2017, NMMC’s specialists were awarded the Gold medal of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization for the development and implementation of the “Method of extracting gold from refractory sulfide gold-arsenic ores”.

✅ In 2019, a new filtration, drying and roasting complex was put into operation, designed to process the tailings of the plant. The specialists of NMMC and Engineering Dobersek GmbH received an international German patent for the equipment used in the new technological process. 

The Press service of JSC NMMC.