The Yekaterinburg Customs has for the first time registered 1 kg of gold delivered from Guinea at the order of Yekaterinburg Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works. The ingot is valued at $39 thousand. Not all African countries mining for gold have facilities to process it. This is a trial batch. At present the ingot is being…
In January-June Magadan region yielded 11.7 tons of gold, including 7.2 tons of ore gold and 4.5 tons of alluvial gold. Silver output totaled 369 tons. Gold production increased by 41% YoY, with ore gold output up by 2.4 tons, and alluvial – by some 350 kg. Silver mining dropped by 12.5%. In the second…
In January-June Khabarovsk region enterprises obtained 9170.4 kg of gold, up by 14.1% YoY. Alluvial gold companies showed the increase in output of 8.6% YoY, to 1517 kg, while miners yielded 7653.4 kg, up by 15.3%. Silver output totaled 27509.5 kg against 19260.4 kg in H1 2016. (Ukrainian metal)
Gold production on Russia’s Chukotka peninsula decreased by 14.34% YoY, to 11.795 tons, in January-June, a spokesperson for the regional industry policy, construction, and housing and utilities department reported on July 11. Silver production in the area fell by 21.71%, to 64.709 tons. Chukotka Mining and Geological Company, a unit of Kinross Gold, produced 4.775…
So far this year the Niman artel LLC has obtained 98 kg of gold, up by 6 kg YoY. Niman washes for alluvial gold in the Verkhebureinsky district of Khabarovsk krai. The industrial season started in early May. In the first month of operation the company washed 20 kg of gold. (Ukrainian metal)
Mednogorsk Copper-Sulfur Works, a part of UMMC, estimates its gold reserves at the Yelanskoye deposits in Voronezh region at 7.2 tons. Moreover, the deposits also hide 502.3 thousand tons of nickel, 58 thousand tons of copper, 15.3 thousand tons of cobalt, 2.9 tons of platinum and 3 tons of palladium. MMSK received the license to…
In January-June Amur region obtained 11126 kg of gold, up by 22.6% YoY, including 9269 kg of ore gold and 1857 kg of alluvial gold. In H1 2016 the region yielded 9004 kg of gold, namely 7322 kg of ore and 1682 kg of alluvial gold. The main increase in output is on behalf of…
On July 9 during a regular convoy delivering goods to the Kumtor mine, one of the tanks with fuel drove into the safety bench. Turning over, the tank moved off the technological route and found itself on a narrow canopy site where about 7 tons of diesel fuel had leaked. However, there was no leakage…