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.…
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,”…
GV Gold has won an auction for geological exploration and development of ore gold on the Ergelyakh block in the republic of Yakutia, the company said in a statement. Ergelyakh is located 30 kilometers off the Drazhnoye deposit of GV Gold’s Tarynsky ore-enrichment plant. Ergelyakh’s forecasted ore gold resources stand at 0.12 tons under the…
Since the start of the year and as of March 3, Polyus Aldan has produced 1 ton of gold. In 2017 the first ton was produced on March 13, and in 2018 – on March 6. In 2018 the enterprise produced 6.2 tons of gold. (Ukrainian metal)
Chairman of the Board of Kyrgyzaltyn Almaz Alimbekov said how the company was saved from bankruptcy. – There is lot of criticism of Kyrgyzaltyn. How difficult is the situation in the company? – There are only two deposits in the structure of Kyrgyzaltyn OJSC now – Makmal and Solton-Sary. Reserves of both are depleted. We…
The physical volume of deals with gold on the Moscow Exchange remained flat YoY at 5.3 tons in February, the exchange said in a statement. The amount of deals with silver grew by 37.5%, to 2.461 tons. In monetary terms, gold and silver deals amounted to more than 11.4 billion rubles, down from 13 billion…
The Siberian Mining and Metallurgical Alliance (SiGMA) has suspended the manufacture of gold at the Ozernovskoye deposit for 2 months. The deposit is situated in Kamchatka region. The suspension of the operation has to do with the need to reconstruct the gold-extracting factory with the capacity of 60 thousand tons. The factory was commissioned in…
According to the authorities of the Magadan region, as of January 1, there were 168 enterprises with license for subsoil use in the region. Of them 100 were developing alluvial gold and 9 – ore gold and silver. Last year 37 tons of gold were extracted, up by 4 tons YoY. In 2 years gold…
