Russia: Omega gold output up in 2018

Omega LLC has finished the gold washing season of 2018. The result was 320 kg of alluvial gold, with the target at 304 kg. The output grew by 14% YoY. The company is developing gold deposits in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). It has 4 licenses for Lazo, Bilir, Bolshoy Delegenyakh and the Bilir Brook…

Russia: Electrum plus obtains 250 kg of gold

In January-August Electrum plus LLC, a part of Susumanzoloto, developing the Vetrenskoye deposits, extracted 250 kg of gold, having processed 108 thousand tons of ore. The output has slightly decreased compared with January-August 2017 mostly due to the drop of average gold contents in ore. By the end of the year the company intends to…

Russia: Finance Ministry mulls lifting VAT on gold

The Russian Finance Ministry is considering canceling value-added tax (VAT) to help repatriate dozens of billion rubles in a move the market has been waiting for dozens of years, Deputy Minister Alexei Moiseyev declared on September 7. “The issue is only discussed, and an additional stimulus for its solution has appeared. You can already see…