- Asarel Medet
Asarel Medet ( _bg. Асарел Медет) is an enormuos copper extracting and processing factory located at 11 km to the northwest of the town ofPanagyurishte in thePazardzhik Province ,Bulgaria . It consists of two main factories: Medet which operates from1964 and Asarel which began operation in1989 . The number of employees has been greatly reduced since 1990s from over 5,000 to 2,500.It extracts over 10,5 million tons of copper ore every year and produces copper concentrate which is sold to the copper refineries at
Pirdop . The ore also containsmolybdenum ,nickel ,gold ,silver . During the past several years some €40,000,000 have been invested in environmentally-friendly technologies in order to preserve the nature ofSredna Gora in the area relatively untouched.[http://www.asarel.com/]
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