Venezuela to offer Russians Crystallex gold project
Thu Nov 6, 2008 12:56pm EST
CARACAS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Venezuela said it will offer a joint venture to Russian-owned miner Rusoro (RML.V:
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He told a Russian delegation that a memorandum of understanding would soon be signed with Rusoro.
It appeared that Sanz intends to replace the Canadian companies who operate the projects that contain some of Latin America's largest gold deposits, with Rusoro, but he did not mention their names.
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