Atomredmetzoloto intends to start mining for gold at the Severnoye deposits in Yakutia. The Severnoye uranium deposits are a part of the Elkon uranium ore district. The designing of the uranium works was put on hold in 2011 after world prices fell drastically following the Fukushima accident. In 2019-2020 the company will carry out prospecting…
The Far Eastern Development Fund (FEDF) and China Gold intend to sign documents to establish a joint fund for gold mining investment, including the Klyuchevskoye field near Lake Baikal, head of FEDF Alexei Chekunkov declared. “We with the Chinese partners have agreed that with a high degree of probability this deal will become the first…
The government of Tajikistan has bought 5% of shares in the Zarafshon gold mining facility, a Tajik-Chinese joint venture, for $1, a source in the Tajik government said on February 15. The agreement with the Chinese side was signed by Farrukh Hamralizoda, head of the Tajik State Property Committee, on the instruction of Tajik President…
In January the Zabaykalye region mined 281.7 kg of ore gold, up by 3.5% YoY. As of February 1, Mangazeya Mining LLC, Darkhan LLC and Novoshirokinsky Mine have been mining for gold. Silver output reached 1200 kg. Only Novoshirokinsky Mine extracts silver. In 2017 the region obtained 13 tons of gold and over 40 tons…
An enterprise of Rosgeologia has completed the prospecting works within the Dakhovskoye gold deposits in the Republic of Adygeia. Following the prospecting, gold-quartz-sulfide ores were found. Estimated reserves are 73.79 tons of R2 gold, including 50.98 tons with 2.8 g per ton at the Shibaba site, 13.02 tons with 1.66 g per ton at the…
In 2017 the mining industry of Kyrgyzstan paid to the budget 9,861,212.7 billion soms in taxes, the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union reported. The organization noted that the mining industry provided more than 8.5% of Kyrgyzstan’s GDP, over 50% of the country’s industrial production and exports, and more than 15% of tax revenues. After the…
Since the beginning of 2018 Irkutsk region obtained 1044.2 kg of gold. All the metal was mined. In particular, Polyus Verninskoye mined 560.7 kg of gold. Vysochaishiy obtained 323 kg of gold. Ugakhan, Vysochaishiy’s subsidiary, produced 114 kg of gold, while Druza LLC in January yielded 46.5 kg of gold. This year all the companies…
Last year the Ministry of Investments and Development held auctions for the usage of subsoil resources on 58 sites. According to the ministry, gold reserves increased by 35 tons, silver – by 25 thousand tons, uranium – by 14 thousand tons, tungsten – by 70 tons and copper by 1.1 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
