In August 2007, KCCW acquired a 20-year subsoil license in an open auction by the Russian government for the development and production of the Sordinsky Plot. 

The Sordinsky Plot is located at the Vyatsko-Kamsky phosphate deposit in the Kirov region and is estimated to hold approximately 28 million tonnes of phosphate ore according to Russian geological standards. 

The Sordinsky Plot has an existing open-pit mine with infrastructure dating to the Soviet period, including internal railways, an ore grinding and drying unit, a chemical laboratory and a depot. 

The development of the mine and a facility for the extraction and reprocessing of phosphate ore will require significant investment.  Until the project is economically viable, we do not plan to develop this plot.