Russia’s gold output increased by 6.4% YoY, to 306.9 tons in 2017, the Finance Ministry said in a statement on February 13 with data on supplies of the metal to gold refining plants. Mined gold output rose by 6.8%, to 253.9 tons, by-product gold output increased by 7.2%, to 16.4 tons, and gold scrap production…
In January Chukotka Autonomous District mined 1.755 tons of ore gold, down by 7.3% YoY. 5 companies mine for ore gold in the district: 2 of Kinross Gold, Mayskoye LLC, Rudnik Karalveyem and Rudnik Valunisty LLC. Alluvial gold season has not started yet – it is expected to commence in April-May. Silver output dropped us…
This year the Mine named after Matrosov, which develops Natalkinskoye gold-ore deposits in Kolyma, intends to mine 5 tons of gold. Since the beginning of the year the mine has already yielded 260 kg. To meet the target, the enterprise will have to process 9 million tons of ore and 15 million tons of rock.…
Residents of Toguz-Toro district demand to stop construction of a gold processing plant, the head of the staff of the district administration Tabyldy Saminov reported. On February 7 residents of the district held a rally with one demand: to suspend the activities of GL Makmal Developing, which was building the gold processing plant. The protesters…
Gold ore concentrate from Altynken field is transported to Kazakhstan, not to China, Almaz Alimbekov, Chairman of the Board of Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC said at a meeting with parliament deputy Akylbek Zhamangulov. According to him, in 2016 deputies of the parliamentary committee on the fuel, energy complex and subsoil use recommended Kyrgyzaltyn and Altynken to refuse…
In 2017 Khabarovsk region increased gold output by 18.6% YoY, to 23.147 tons, which was a historic record. The ore gold output was 19.114 tons. This year the output is expected to increase by 1.3% YoY, to 23.45 tons. At the same time, gold manufacture in Buryatia dropped last year by almost 4%, to 5.678…
By 2025 Kamchatka region intends to have increased gold output to 17.5 tons, or up 2.6-fold compared with 2017. New enterprises to be commissioned in the region will mostly boost the output. In particular, in Q1 the first gold-extracting line with the capacity of 2 tons will be put into operation at the Ozernovsky GOK.…
In late 2017 the prospecting works were completed at the Tuylkusay site in Kostanay region. Estimated reserves of gold there are 5.3 tons. Rare-earth metals have also been found. A plant with the capacity of 48 thousand tons of refractories will be constructed in the city of Arkalyk. The cost of the project is 0.9…