CIS Metals Summit (14th-16th February 2012, Marriott Grand Hotel, Moscow)

Adam Smith Conferences announced its 17^th Annual CIS Metals Summit, which includes the 7^th Annual CIS Precious Metalsto take place on 14^th-16^th February 2012 in Marriott Grand Hotel, Moscow.

With gold prices in a ten-year rally, a question over inevitability of a speculative bubble imposes itself. Summit will offer a unique opportunity to meet leaders of CIS metals industry, important industry players of the precious metals sector and top managers that attend the Summit every year to discuss whether Russia will be able to avoid double dip and how it will impact the development of the industry overall.

Representatives of such companies as Polyus Gold, Kinross Gold Corporation, Metalloinvest, Severstal, Mechel, Evraz are to be engaged in the Summit so to discuss industry news, CIS market leaders’ main investment projects and financial issues in relation to the return of Russian IPOs. Special focus sessions will be dedicated to China, as an export market, and rare earths.

Heavyweights in industrial metals will debate on global macroeconomic and market trends, question of price impact on the sector in future and ways to reduce costs and boost performance with the aim to make metals industry more profitable. Directors of national and international companies actively involved in metallurgy are expected to take part in the CIS Metals Summit.

Three day event will become a platform for some 50 high-profile speakers presenting on the following issues:

CIS Metals Summit: 15^th-16^th February 2012:

• Double Dip: Can Russia avoid contagion?

• CIS Market Leaders: business development scenarios and new investment projects

• WTO & Customs Union: is it likely to increase competition in the CIS market? EU, Russia, Kazakhstan & Belarus: partners or competitors?

• What are the prospects for domestic metals demand in the CIS?

• Financing modernisation: new approaches

• What are the price forecasts for the key raw materials and how will these prices affect the CIS metals industry in the near to long term?

• New raw materialsdeposits: what is the potential for exploration projects in Russia and the CIS?

• Cost-cutting and increasing efficiency: How can the economics of steel-making be made more profitable?

CIS Precious Metals Summit: 14^th February 2012:

• State policy – How is the Russian Natural Resources Ministry changing its policy on the size of strategic discoveries, taxation and foreign-domestic partnerships?

• Investment projects: updates from the key players in the CIS precious metals market

• Gold trading: Who is buying gold & why? China? India? Central banks? Investors? Everyone?

• State programmes for investment into the gold industry in the CIS

• Deposits in the Russian Regions and the CIS:what is the exploration potential and how to attract more foreign investors?

• Updates on IPOs in the pipeline:Polymetal, Kamchatka Gold, GV Gold, Altynalmas Gold, Seligdar, Nord Gold and Zapadnaya gold.

• M&A: with domestic consolidations all but completed, where next?

For more information about the Summit or the topics covered, please visit http://www.adamsmithconferences.com/MRC16RM