Tajikistan: Pakrut to increase gold output

The Ministry of Industry and New Technologies is calling on the Tajik-Iranian gold-extracting company Pakrut to increase output and processing. Since 2014 Pakrut has been fully owned by China Nonferrous Metal International Mining Co., Ltd. The first gold ingots were produced in early 2017. The same year the Pakrut mine was damaged by snow avalanches.…

Kyrgyzstan: Kumtor should not be stopped

The operation of Kumtor should not be stopped, mining engineer Orozbek Duisheev declared. According to him, mining industry is in critical condition. “It is necessary to change the laws, there must be independent management in order to bring the industry out of crisis. First of all, Kumtor should not be stopped, it must continue working,”…