The Krasnoyarsk region subsidiary of the State Expertise Service of Russia has approved the project to construct a site to process gravitation gold-bearing concentrate in Zabaikalye.
It is expected to process 3 tons of gold-containing raw materials per day.
The complex is expected to be operating for 14 years. (Ukrainian metal)
Gold production at Kumtor mine in 2018 was 534,563 ounces or 16,626.78 kg, Public Relations Department at Kumtor Gold Company reports. Gold sales in 2018 were 530,448 ounces or 16,498.79 kg with a revenue totaling $660.1 million. Contribution to the national budget in taxes and mandatory payments in 2018 is more than 9.6 billion soms.…
In January-February Uzbekistan exported $3 billion worth of products, up by 20.4% YoY.
$1.2 billion accounted for gold.
During the whole 2018 Uzbekistan exported $2.9 billion worth of gold. (Ukrainian metal)
Rudnik Taborniy, a Nordgold enterprise, intends to invest over 2 billion rubles in the development of its licensed site in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). In particular, 320 million rubles will be spent on prospecting works at the Tabornoye deposit. Repair of machinery will cost 200 million rubles, and the purchase of 5 quarry dump…
Production of unwrought gold and semi-processed gold or in powder form reached 14,315 kg in January-February, up by 5% YoY, Statistics Committee of the National Economy Ministry of Kazakhstan reports.
In the accounting period output of unwrought and semi-processed silver or in the powder form made 128,576 kg, down by 5.1%. (Kazinform/Ukrainian metal)
In January-February Magadan region extracted 4569 kg of gold and 99.7 tons of silver. Gold output increased 1.8-fold YoY, while silver extraction did not change. In the first two months of 2017 the region yielded 2516.4 kg of gold. The considerable increase in gold output has to do with Natalkinskiy GOK reaching its design capacity.…
In January-February Druza LLC produced 137.4 kg of gold in Irkutsk region, up by 3.4% YoY. At present the company is developing the Nevskoye gold ore deposit. Alluvial sites operation will start in May. Until the end of the year Druza intends to produce at least 1 ton of gold. Last year the company extracted…
The government of Uzbekistan has drawn up a plan of prospecting works to increase gold reserves from 2020 to 2024 by 474 tons. According to the plan, the gold reserves have to increase due to the opening and the further development of new gold deposits. As of the end of 2019 the gold reserve has…
In January-February Amur region extracted 2675.8 kg of gold, down by 5.2% YoY. At present only ore gold is mined in the region. Alluvial gold extraction will start in April-May. 5 companies are engaged in gold mining, with Petropavlovsk in the lead. In particular, the company enterprises provided for 85% of the combined gold output.…
Lydian International Limited announced that, in connection with the ongoing blockades of road access to the Amulsar Gold Project, Lydian U.K. Corporation Limited and Lydian Canada Ventures Corporation – subsidiaries of the company – had formally notified the government of Armenia of the existence of disputes with the government under the agreement between the Government…
In 2018 Polymetal increased gold equivalent output by 9% YoY, to 1.562 million ounces.
Gold manufacture reached 1.216 million ounces, up by 13%.
Silver output fell by 6%, to 25.3 million ounces.
In 2019 Polymetal intends to produce 1.55 million ounces of gold and in 2020 – 1.6 million ounces. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-February Irkutsk region mined 2232.9 kg of ore gold, down by 5% YoY. At present only 4 companies are mining for gold in the region. Polyus Verninskoye extracted 1392.3 kg of gold, while the rest (940.6 kg of gold) was extracted by Druza LLC, Vysochaishiy and Ugakhan. This year the region intends to obtain…
TZRK, a part of Vysochaishiy (GV Gold), has won an auction to develop and mine ore gold at the Ergelyakh field. The size of the site is 69.1 square km. The R1 resources are estimated at 0.12 tons, R2 – 0.6 tons and R3 – 9.3 tons. Last year TZRK mined 93 thousand ounces of…
A new player has appeared on the gold-extraction market of Sverdlovsk region. Severouralskaya Mining Company LLC has received a license to prospect and mine gold at the Vilyuiskaya field. The C1 reserves are estimated at 206 kg, and C2 – 377 kg of ore gold. The company has paid 118 million rubles for the right…
In May gold extraction will start at the Polyanka deposit in Khabarovsk region. So far the Resurs LLC has already prepared the crushing complex of the processing factory with the capacity of 600 tons of ore per hour. In the first year of operation it is expected to produce 1.5 tons of gold. The gold…
The Vostoc-2 miners team intends to extract 67 kg of alluvial gold this season.
In particular, the team will finish developing the Moiga site, though the license is valid until March 2022.
The team will also be developing the site at the Kuzkin Brook.
Last year the team extracted 64 kg of gold. (Ukrainian metal)
According to the current development strategy of Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC, work will be aimed at transforming the company from a production enterprise into a management company with a holding structure, Chairman of the Board of Kyrgyzaltyn, Almaz Alimbekov, declared. According to him, in the future, the main areas of activity of the holding company should be…
The Ministry of Industry and New Technologies is calling on the Tajik-Iranian gold-extracting company Pakrut to increase output and processing. Since 2014 Pakrut has been fully owned by China Nonferrous Metal International Mining Co., Ltd. The first gold ingots were produced in early 2017. The same year the Pakrut mine was damaged by snow avalanches.…
The operation of Kumtor should not be stopped, mining engineer Orozbek Duisheev declared. According to him, mining industry is in critical condition. “It is necessary to change the laws, there must be independent management in order to bring the industry out of crisis. First of all, Kumtor should not be stopped, it must continue working,”…
GV Gold has won an auction for geological exploration and development of ore gold on the Ergelyakh block in the republic of Yakutia, the company said in a statement. Ergelyakh is located 30 kilometers off the Drazhnoye deposit of GV Gold’s Tarynsky ore-enrichment plant. Ergelyakh’s forecasted ore gold resources stand at 0.12 tons under the…
Since the start of the year and as of March 3, Polyus Aldan has produced 1 ton of gold.
In 2017 the first ton was produced on March 13, and in 2018 – on March 6.
In 2018 the enterprise produced 6.2 tons of gold. (Ukrainian metal)
Chairman of the Board of Kyrgyzaltyn Almaz Alimbekov said how the company was saved from bankruptcy. – There is lot of criticism of Kyrgyzaltyn. How difficult is the situation in the company? – There are only two deposits in the structure of Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC now – Makmal and Solton-Sary. Reserves of both are depleted. We…
The physical volume of deals with gold on the Moscow Exchange remained flat YoY at 5.3 tons in February, the exchange said in a statement. The amount of deals with silver grew by 37.5%, to 2.461 tons. In monetary terms, gold and silver deals amounted to more than 11.4 billion rubles, down from 13 billion…
The Siberian Mining and Metallurgical Alliance (SiGMA) has suspended the manufacture of gold at the Ozernovskoye deposit for 2 months. The deposit is situated in Kamchatka region. The suspension of the operation has to do with the need to reconstruct the gold-extracting factory with the capacity of 60 thousand tons. The factory was commissioned in…