The Geopromining project to construct a factory to process silver-polymetallic ore at the Verkhne-Menkeche deposits in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) has been approved.
The capacity of the factory will be 300 thousand tons.
At present the ore from the deposit is processed at the Serebro Magadana (Polymetal).
The reserves of the deposit are 1200 tons of silver, 143.3 thousand tons of lead, 174 thousand tons of zinc, and the resources are 4761 tons of silver, 633 thousand tons of lead and 651 thousand tons of zinc. (Ukrainian metal)