Altynken works, built at the Taldy-Bulak deposits and valued at $285 million is still not operating. When the assembly works started the constructors found out that the copper content in the gold ore was higher than expected. So, Dore alloy can be extracted from only one third of ore, with the rest being copper. At…
U.K.-registered Petropavlovsk Plc, which operates in Russia, has decreased its forecast for production of gold in 2016 to 415,000-430,000 ounces from 460,000-500,000 ounces with an average production cost of about $700 per ounce, the company said in a statement. The new forecast followed re-estimation of the impact from suspension of production at the Andreyevskaya deposit…
Chinese businessmen will invest $2 million into the project of copper-gold concentrate production in Kentau. The factory is expected to produce some 200 tons of products per day. Within the program a processing shop with the capacity of 65 thousand tons per year will be reconstructed in Kentau. Ore will be supplied from the Yubileynoye…
Gold output on the Urup Island of Russia’s Kuril Islands will fall by 100 kilograms to 1.583 tons in 2016, but silver output will rise to 4.274 tons from 3.327 tons, local precious metals producer Kurilgeo said. Despite the production cut, revenue from the sales of gold is to increase by 11% to 4.3 billion…
In January-November Chukotka companies mined 26.974 tons of gold, down by 9.78% YoY. Silver output grew by 7.19% YoY, to 149.96 tons. In particular, Kinross Gold decreased output by 9.7% YoY, to 19.537 tons of gold, while silver production went up by 5.8%, to 141.127 tons. Karalveyem Mine gold output dropped by 3.06% YoY, or…
In 2017 Seligdar plans to mine 5.1 tons of gold, up by 16-19% YoY. This year the company has reached record results, even though not achieving planned volumes. “We planned output increase of 35%. We couldn’t reach it, but we still hit 30% increase. The failure was caused by the non-operation of the gold-extracting factory.…
Muzhievo village near the Hungarian border has been mining gold since 1999 for 7 years. Now the mine will be repaired and some 500 people employed, thanks to Avellana Gold. “The project will be successful. If some locals treat it neutrally, those who have previously worked there support it now. Such enterprises offer higher wages.…
Companies of the businessman Musa Bazhayev suggest correcting the agreement on selling Amur Zoloto to Petropavlovsk and receiving 20% in Petropavlovsk instead of 30.3%. In April Petropavlovsk signed an agreement to buy Amur Zoloto for $144 million from Alliance Mining Group and Lexor Group, controlled by Bazhayev. According to the agreement, his companies had to…