Presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District Sergei Menyailo has urgently departed for the Zabaikalsky region, where miners began a strike on May 18, a regional information center said in a statement. The Yugo-Zapadnaya gold mine, belonging to Darasunsky Rudnik, saw 81 workers refusing to leave the mine because of alleged wage arrears for April.…
The Polyarnaya artel plans to obtain 250-270 kg of alluvial gold in Chukotka this season. “We haven’t started operations yet, as the snow covers the sites, and there is no water. Sand washing will start in June. We expect the growth of output at the level of 30-50 kg”, the company chief geologist Ananiy Solomchuk…
In the first three months of 2017, Kumtor Gold Company produced 127,400 ounces or 3962.59 kg of gold and contributed more than 2.2 billion soms in taxes and mandatory payments. Gold production for the first quarter of 2017 was 127,400 ounces compared to 86,444 ounces of gold in the comparative period of 2016. The increase…
In January-April subsoil users of Magadan region mined 5012 kg of gold, up by 52% YoY. The region has also started working on the alluvial gold. In particular Susumanzoloto yielded 100 kg of gold. According to Kolyma governor Vladimir Pecheniy, this year the region intends to yield 30.5 tons of gold, up by 10% YoY,…
In the current washing season Plamya intends to get 450 kg of gold. Last year the company yielded 379 kg. The growth will be reached thanks to the third licensed site put into operation. In addition to Sildigir and Sygynakh in Yakutia, the company will also wash for gold in Komagin. According to the company…
So far the gold washers of Kolyma have yielded 1.7 tons more gold then last year. The plan for the year is 30.5 tons. In 2016 Kolyma miners produced 27.9 tons of gold and 889.2 tons of silver, with 15.9 tons of alluvial metal, an absolute record for Russia. Susumanzoloto yielded 4.5 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-February Russia produced 31.01 tons of gold (33.25 tons in 2016), including 23.76 tons of mined gold (24.56 tons), 2.69 tons of by-product gold (2.19 tons) and 4.55 tons of secondary gold (6.49 tons). At the same time silver output totaled 133.91 tons (137.24 tons), including 60.43 tons of mined silver (71.32 tons), 48.05…
In 2017 Amur Minerals LLC will spend 170 million rubles on prospecting works on the gold-copper-porphyrites deposits of Malmyzh. By 2021 the company intends to construct and put into operation the mining and processing works at Malmyzh with the capacity of 30 million tons of ore per year. The reserves of the site will be…