Uzbekistan’s Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Complex JSC started construction of the fifth hydrometallurgical plant at the Auminza-Amantai gold ore deposit. The country’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev attended the plant’s groundbreaking ceremony on March 28. The new plant, worth $396 million, is expected to annually process five million tons of ore. Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Complex is…
In 2017 Drazhnik LLC plans to increase gold output to 350 kg. Last year the enterprise yielded 340 kg of gold. This year the company intends to start developing a new site in Yakutia. The company paid 1.1 million rubles for the license to work there. The gold reserves of the site are 700 kg.…
Rosszoloto, which extracts gold in the Zeysk district of Amur region, this year starts exploiting three new sites. “Last year we got some 300 kg of gold and we worked on three sites: Galchima, Dorozhny and Ozerny. Galchima has been exhausted, we haven’t submitted our license yet, as the site is being recultivated. This year…
A delegation of the Russian Vostok-Geologodobycha company should arrive in Bishkek one of these days, which in 2015 won a tender to develop Jerooy field in Talas region. It is a member of Russian Platinum group of companies. In early April, it is planned to lay a capsule on the site of the future mine…
Since 2014 investments into the mining industry of the Khabarovsk region totaled 16 billion rubles. Belaya Gora Mining and Processing Works increased ore processing by 10% in 2 years. In 2016 Polymetal put into operation a GOK at the Svetloye deposits. Amur Zoloto LLC has resumed operation at the Yubileinaya gold factory, and the Ayano-Maysk…
Gold production at the Kumtor mine in 2016 was 550,960 ounces or 17,136.78 kg, Kumtor Gold Company informed. Gold sales were 546,342 ounces or 16,993.15 kg with a revenue totaling $686.4 million. According to preliminary reports of the KR National Statistics Committee, Kumtor’s share in KR GDP in 2016 was 8% and in the overall…
German Pikhoya, a member of the management board of Russian nanotechnology company Rusnano and former CEO of gold producer Polyus, may become CEO of gold miner GV Gold. Pikhoya has left Rusnano to “chair a large gold producing company,” Rusnano said without any specifications. Pikhoya said he would be ready to discuss the topic only…
U.K. Highland Gold Mining (HGM), which operates in Russia, has estimated capital expenditures on the Unkurtash deposit in Kyrgyzstan to amount to $322 million, the company said in a statement on March 20. The field’s annual gold output is expected at 133,000 ounces, or 4.14 tons, on average with operating expenses of $616 per ounce…