Vershinina E. Yu., Senior Consultant-Ecologist, e-mail: evershinina@srk.ru.com; Kuznetsova A. V., Consultant-Ecologist, e-mail: akuznetsova.home@gmail.com, SRK Consulting Company (Russia), Ltd.

The ecological requirements, demanded by Russian legal system to activity of ore mining companies, have been considered. Also, basic international approaches, used by world financial institutes to project estimation, realization of which can be executed with foreign investments support, have been described.

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