Russia: gold output up in H1 2020

Russia’s gold output rose by 2% YoY, to 138.1 tons in January-June, the Finance Ministry said quoting supplies to the refining plants. Mined gold output rose by 5.3%, to 116.38 tons, while by-product gold output decreased by 10.9%, to 8.27 tons, and production of gold scrap fell 1by 3.3%, to 13.45 tons. Russia’s silver output…

Russia: gold output up in January-May 2020

In January-May, Russia increased gold output by 2.83% YoY, to 104.31 tons. In particular, extracted gold amounted to 86.38 tons, up by 6.66%, by-product gold – 6.79 tons, down by 7.62%, and secondary gold – 11.15 tons, up by 14.96%. Silver manufacture decreased by 7.39%, to 355.3 tons, including extracted silver – 175.39 tons, down…