Haradinaj government does not recognise study cost 600 thousand euros

In November last year, the Kosovar Privatisation Agency extended 600 thousand euros to the company Ernst & Young to conduct a feasibility study on the metallural giant Trepca.

The company did the job, even though the findings were delivered more criticism from Trepca connoisseurs and its own management.

According to them, the findings of this study halve Kosovo's mining wealth. However, the Haradinaj government is not expected to take this study into account, though 600 thousand euros were granted to it.

The feasibility study for Trepca has been initiated and financed by the Kosovo Privatisation Agency. From the Ministry of Economic Development now say they have accepted the report from the AKP and are currently examining it, but have acknowledged that the study does not present the real situation on the ground.

We think that the study has presented the reserves according to data that it has managed to provide but given the geology of the site and research technology of the time, we think resources are larger, but this is proven by specific consistent research that will take place in the future”, says the Bureau for Information from the Ministry of Economic Development.

Currently, this ministry is supporting the Government for the drafting and initiative of the competition for the establishment of the Supervision Board for Trepca under the Trepca Law.

After the establishment of the Supervisor Board for Trepca, the Board has competence that connects with investments and partnerships for research and mining exploitation”.

What the study says cost 600 thousand euros.

The Word newspaper has earlier provided a copy of this study, which for many economic connoisseurs and Trepca management, bisects Kosovo's mining wealth.

Of all the current studies on metallural giant has been estimated that Kosovo has a total of 62m tonnes of mining wealth. But in the latter commissioned by the Kosovo government, which has cost over half a million euros, Kosovo's underground wealth is halved into 32 million tonnes of mining reserves.

It is seen that the Stanterg mine, which has so far had 22 million geology reserves, has been converted into 12 million balanced mineral reserves.

The same has been true of the Bellobardo mine and the mine in Crnac.

Tmava: Study does not envision any developmental vision for Trepca

Even more controversial to this report has been shown by Trepca director Ahmet Tmava, who has told Gazeta Word that the draft which the company has prepared is unacceptable and has serious defects.

The “for us is not based on scientific parameters and we have given serious remarks in the draft, which we expect to be taken into account”, Trava said.

According to him, if these warnings are not taken, then this feasibility study will not be accepted and disputed with scientific evidence.

In the draft already prepared, there is no developmental vision of the metallural giant Trepca. The company proposes that a symbolic increase in the finalisation rate in the next five years, then be made the assessment on how to proceed in the future.

According to the Trepca management, this does not mean the developmental vision of the company as the Government of Kosovo has predicted. The results of the current study have revealed that Trepca must remain in much the same situation, selling only the concentration extracted from the mines, as he does now. /The Word/