Tashkent, April 30 -- President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting to discuss tasks in geology and mining and metallurgical industry.

Currently, six types of such raw materials are mined in Uzbekistan. It is possible to obtain products with high added value from platinum, indium, vanadium metals, as well as minerals containing tungsten, molybdenum, rhnium, zinc and manganese. For example, $300 million worth of output in country's previously non-existent powder metallurgy and $100 million a year in equipment and components can be organized.

An agreement on critical raw materials was recently reached with the European Union, opening up wide access to this large market.

Considering this, responsible persons have been instructed to form a p...