Hi All,Thought this might make interesting Melbourne Cup day...

Hi All,

Thought this might make interesting Melbourne Cup day reading:
http://www.pobjeda.me/2012/11/03/rudnik-brskovo-investitore-doveo-predrag-perunicic/

Use Chrome browser to translate. The article text is below. Great in depth article about the BMB director Milos and his dealings.


Mine Brskovo: investors led Predrag Perunicic

Famous former handball player, first, convincing the director and one of the founders, Australian company BRL Milos Bošnjakovica to come, then persuaded to go through "torture" of bureaucracy and recession indigenous emotions

MOJKOVAC - The first information about the company's plans Balamara Australian Resources Limited (BRL) to open a new mine Brskovo published in victory, in early February, 2010. year Mojkovac depletion, which is lost in the transition era, swam in the wealth of big promises and megalomaniac idea projects, responded as immoderate Fool's Day joke. In this story, then, nobody believed me, and victory is almost accused of "misleading the public". Today, things are quite different. And, for all the "guilty" one Pljevljak ...

British website for investors, Proactive Investors, announced in mid-September, the first results of geological research on Bjelasica: 2.43 percent zinc, 1.74 lead and, even, 340.4 grams of silver per tonne, with the assessment that Brskovo, by these analyzes developed in the Polish and Canadian laboratories, will be the most important manufacturing center in Central Europe!

Mojkovcanima nothing is supposed to prove. For its part, the mine is already a reality, their new future, a great opportunity. President municipality Dejan Medojevic confident even, that the project will stop the emigration and solve the problems of unemployment. But all that is already known to the public. Rare for anyone, however, know that behind those nice stories is the current Secretary of State for Sport in the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Serbia, Predrag Pedja Perunicic, born and raised in Plevlja end.

- I have to say, and it should be known that Pedja biggest "culprit" I came in Mojkovac, and brought the company. I vehemently pressed, or "abusing" our best men close relationships. He's very loyal Montenegro, and sensitive to the underdevelopment of the north. I think it is and started, and he had a strong case. The fact is that today we would not be here if it was not Pedja and its persistence. We are not even aware Mojkovac, he revealed the secret arrival of Australian companies in the city at Tara, the director and one of its founders Milos Bosnjakovic.

Famous former handball player was gladly accepted to talk with us a little bit about the "guilt" in the project of a new mine "Brskovo." Humble by nature, however, will not hear that his greatest merit.

- Okay, I started this story, Milos motivate him to come, but it was only the beginning. It was necessary to speak on multiple fronts, from local to national levels. It was necessary to convince many skeptical and indifferent, and at the same time important structures that we open a good story. It was extremely difficult. The door to us, so to speak, have not been anywhere near wide open, even in the Local Government. When we started off the shelf, in the exhausting process of negotiation and persuasion, joined by the prophet Obrad Miso Stanisic, and several Mojkovcana so deserving of the success of this project has more.

VICTORY: However, that was not you would not have come to Milos in Mojkovac. With what you have "come out" before the godfather?

- Godfather was a mitigating factor, but only as a ticket. BRL is too serious companies that operated on such lines. I had, however, arguments. By profession I am a mining engineer, I knew Brskovo has potential, I talked a lot with professionals who have worked in the old mine, and everyone was saying that in Bjelasica else more valuable. There is the old documentation, which was confirmed. I am left only to motivate Milos to come and view it, and the best men that helped.

Kuma you convince mid-2007. year concession tender was put out next September, and the contract was signed only in December 2010. It took ...

- We were greeted by the legacy of the former Yugoslavia - an endless bureaucracy. Everything was happening in slow motion, everything is delayed. Interest in our story, the first few years, hardly any, as Milos never quite clear. He could not understand that no one wants to hear, to see a story that should bring Mojkovac prosperity, employment and significant income municipality, of concession. He was, while waiting for the contract, ready to go. With it, came the recession, that is, around the world, many investors disperse, zinc prices have halved ... Everyone, then, were ready to give up, but I was persistent. I managed, of course, supported by a group Mojkovcana that ga persuade him to stay.

How?

- It was nothing special. I said, okay, I do not go as expected, but the administration can not be changed. We spent three years on this, it is not okay to give up now. I was convinced that, in the end, no one will regret. I convinced and Milos, and he company.

The wait is worth it, mine is, before the opening. Are you satisfied?

- Of course. From the beginning, I repeat, he believed that this would be a good story. Are you a long time to complete, but we will, God willing, next year already have the first concrete results, the preparatory work for the opening of the mine, and the first to take up employment.

Indebted to you Mojkovcane ...

- It's not about that. I am, when I was able, just wanted to help, not to anyone borrow, so that no one, for that matter, there are no obligations to me. Just think, this time, appealed to Mojkovcane to prepare for the opening of the mine, to work on it, to follow the ads that will follow. Being the qualification, training of personnel. Mine will, I think, be able to hire all the unemployed in Mojkovac. Milos was even, at one meeting said that Mojkovac not have enough people, required the mine.

What are you doing with so much constancy, in this project? If you initiated the godfather, what started you?

- Are not any material reasons, or special ambition, if that's what you mean. I'm just very attached to their native land. My parents are in Pljevlja, where I farm, I edit it, I come at least once a month. My motivation is, in fact, ordinary, human, emotional connection I have with my Pljevlja and Montenegro, particularly the north, to which I am particularly sensitive. Everywhere in the world's wealthier north from the south, not only with us. Not enough invested, despite the extraordinary resources, forestry, mining and hydro-potential, to agriculture. I wanted to at least do something about it.

Tell us, then, in the end, how is it that you chose Mojkovac, and not some other end to completely impoverished north?

- I am not I, Mojkovac himself chose. Several things that coincided perfectly. Mojkovac has mineral wealth, on the one hand, and my godfather serious company, originated from that area. Second, the opening of new mines in Mojkovac, which is crucial, involves working at the highest environmental standards, and that can only companies from Australia, like BRL, and New Zealand. And, finally, it is very important that behind every project Australian companies abroad is their country. So, all the cubes were there, they had to be just agree. Have it lasted, but it will, I am sure, all worthwhile.

Mojkovcani will be surprised

BRL companies, even before the opening of the mine was certain, began with donations Mojkovac. How do you comment?

- I am not surprised that donations of Australian companies, but Mojkovcani will only be surprised, of course, if, as we all expected, the mine opens. Her attitude at all will mimic the behavior it has the most foreign investors. Milos, on some very important meetings, announced that the company wants to live with the local community, to be part of it, for better or for worse. In addition to all the obligations to the state and the municipality, from the contract, Milos said that the company, explaining that doing so in Australia, to help the local community investments, for example, in schools, roads, or in any other way. Be sure that it will be so.

Bošnjakovic: There is an obstruction

Director Milos BRL Bošnjakovic told us that there were those who were trying to stop the project for the new mine, but declined to say with whom address is reached the obstruction.

- It does not matter now. Much more important is that we go forward, and we're closer to the goal. Of course, in addition to the main "culprit", Pedja, there were still people we've had, and have, with maximum support. Will mention, on this occasion, only two. When the story went, then all included, among others, deputy Obrad Miso Stanisic. It is interesting that he was the president of the municipality where the old mine closed, and is now, in effect, part of the team, which opens a new Brskovo. Wind in the sails, and 103 percent, he gave us, and Vladan Dubljevic, first as director of the Geological Survey, and now, as assistant minister of economy - said that Bosnjakovic.

Ranko Cetkovic