Anglo-Asian Mining PLC (AAM), gold producer in Azerbaijan, signed a three-year contract with Industrial Minerals SA ('Industrial Minerals'), a Geneva based integrated trading, mining and logistics group.

Uzbekistan's Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (AMMC, Almalyk city, Tashkent region) a monopoly producer of copper in Uzbekistan, increased production of cathode copper by almost 3.3 percent – up to 21,900 tons in January-March, 2014 compared to the same period last year.