This is from Sept 5 2007:

In The Km. 88

100 Million DOLARES INVEST THE GROUP AGAPOV

IN MINERALS NOT METALICOS



---The Chinese business Clean Guiana, of the Group Agapov, will
exploit the deposits of existing kaolin in the Km. 88 with the
purpose to supply the domestic market and to export it toward Europe.
Giving here the opportunity of installing down the water some
industries of ceramics and role. I need the engineer José Manuel
Rodriguez, General Manager of the Russian-Venezuelan business M.S.


Tumeremo. (PRESS ALCALDIA BOLIVARIANA ).- New Russian investments in
our country will come to benefit nonexclusive-to the municipality
Sifontes, where one of the most powerful groups of that nation, the
Agapov projects -the investment- over the 100 million dollars in the
exploitation of not metallic minerals as the kaolin. "Is a new
parallel industry to that of the gold which has been the
traditionally has prevailed in the area of the Km. 88. This it will
be a new development area, something that really will bring progress
for the adjoining towns to the area of exploitation of the mine
kaolin".


I need the General Manager of Mining MS , engineer José Manuel
Rodriguez. "It is an important investment the one that performs this
Group Agapov, whose main shareholders Vladimir and André Agapov,
recently they were of visit in the mine located in the Km. 88".


---With an investment over the 40 million dollars and a generation-
initial one- of some 300 to 350 direct jobs. Already the project is
in phase of initiation, recently the investors visited the plots
Venamo and Worujuana, there are other two more- Mireya and Mesi -,
which they form part of the concessions to exploit.


To way of example, quantifying the existing reserve in the subsoil
sifonteño as for this not metallic mineral refers, the General
Manager of MS-LIKEWISE belonging to this Group Agapov- said that only
in The Venamo there is an approximate one of 9,35 million tons tested
of this mineral. "This guarantees an useful life of the project for
more than 15 years".


---This project we will be initiating it once arrive the plant which
is brought of the exterior-es a Russian and Italian technology- and
which should be arriving at the country in the next 6 months. This
means that but or less between a year and a half said project should
be completely It consolidated and starting operations.


It indicates that jointly with these teams will be another plant of
calcination which will be installed in Port Ordaz, since of the Km. 8
we will remove the kaolin refined , being in said city where will be
burned to carry the product to their final phase, this plant required
another investment of 60 million dollars-jointly with the CVG- where
they will be generated other 200 to 250 direct jobs, always connected
with the Project Kaolin.-