Russia: Ukonik to yield first gold in 2023

Hort-V LLC (Moscow), which owns a license to develop the Ukonikskoye deposit in Zabaikalye region, intends to start extracting gold in 2023. Annual ore output will reach 800 thousand tons. The company plans to construct a gold-extraction factory with the design capacity of 2 tons per year in the first phase. Later the capacity will…

Azerbaijan: gold exports up in Q1 2019

Azerbaijan earned as many as $32.5 million by exporting 775.35 kg of gold in January-March. In the same period last year, the export of gold from Azerbaijan made up 726.05 kg worth $30.9 million. Thus, the export of gold in quantitative terms increased by 6.8% and the revenue went up by 5.3%. Gold production in…