Polyus reports that the capacity of Natalkinskaya gold-extracting factory has reached 80% of its project level of 10 million tons of ore per year.
Since the start of the year Natalka has produced over 40 thousand ounces of gold.
When the factory reaches its project capacity it will produce some 450 thousand ounces of gold per year.
“This is an important stage of Natalka development. We are very pleased with the rate of capacity increase. The operation of Natalkinsky GOK will provide for the Polyus output of 2.8 million ounces of gold in 2019” the company CEO Pavel Grachev said. (Ukrainian metal)