Dalnevostochnoye PGO, a part of the state geological holding Rosgeologia, in the new season will start prospecting works at three promising gold sites in Khabarovsk Territory. By the end of the year the prospectors will have to complete the research at the Poniysky site. The prospecting for the gold-quartz and gold-copper-porphyry ores on the site…
As a result of prospecting and evaluation works new ore objects were discovered in Kazakhstan. Chairman of the Committee of Geology and Subsoil Use of the Ministry for Investment and Development Akbatyr Nadyrbaev and Chairman of the Board of Kazgeology JSC Galym Nurzhanov told about the work carried out in 2017 on geological study of…
The Far East Development minister Alexander Galushka during his working trip to China has held a number of meetings with the local businesses. In particular, he held talks with the Minmetals Corporation. The corporation is eyeing the development of the Malmyzh copper-porphyry deposits in Khabarovsk region. The deposits reserves amount to 5.6 million tons of…
In 2017 Russia exported 0.1363 million tons of raw nickel, down by 26.6% YoY. Almost all the volume was sold to the far foreign countries (0.136 million tons). According to the Federal Customs Service, raw aluminum exports dropped from 3.481 million tons in 2016 to 3.208 million tons in 2017. Far foreign countries accounted for…
The prospecting of copper ore deposits on the Novopetrovskoye field in the Republic of Bashkortostan is complete. According to the inspection, the deposits have the reserves of 387 thousand tons of R1 copper with the average content of 1.44%, 151 thousand tons of R2 copper (1.28%), 638 thousand tons of R1 zinc (2.37%) and 268…
A new plant to produce copper wire rod opened in the city of Togliatti. In particular, a cold start was made to the fire refining furnace. The plant is expected to produce 24 thousand tons of copper wire rod per year and will employ 170 people. The owner of the plant – Akron Holding –…
The Russian company, RosGeoPerspectiva, will carry out geological exploration work to find copper and gold in the promising areas of Kazakhtau and Kazakhtau 1 in Navoi region of Uzbekistan. The Russian side and the State Committee of Uzbekistan for Geology and Mineral Resources have already prepared a draft agreement on geological exploration and pilot production…
Dalgeophysica, a part of the state holding Rosgeologia, has finished the second stage of prospecting in Khabarovsk region. The prospecting will be complete in late 2018, but even now the specialists do not doubt that the Ponyisky site will be one of the largest gold-quartz and gold-copper-porphyritic deposits in the world. The size of the…