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Miner in Deal With Chinese

By The Moscow Times

June 16, 2011

Mining and energy holding En+ Group signed an agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China for as much as $5 billion of funding to develop East Siberian projects. China Eximbank agreed to help finance the construction of power generators as well as coal, copper and iron-ore mining projects for En+ companies at a ceremony attended by President Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, in Moscow on Thursday.

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