In January Chukotka Autonomous District extracted 1665 kg of gold and 8.7 tons of silver, down by 5% and by 19% YoY. At present only ore gold is being mined. 5 companies are involved in the process. Alluvial gold sites development will start in May. 7 companies will operate there. In 2018 Chukotka obtained 24,130…
The project to develop Ozernoye lead-zinc deposit in the Republic of Buryatia has been presented to the president representative in the Far East District, Yuri Trutnev, in order to receive state support. The license from December 2018 is owned by Ozernoye LLC. The deposit is one of the 10 largest zinc deposits in the world.…
In 2018 GRK Darkhan LLC, developing the Kirchenovskoye deposit in Zabaikalye, sold 327.3 kg of gold and 17 tons of silver, up 1.9-fold and 2.5-fold YoY respectively. The increase is due to the growth of ore processing. While in 2017 Darkhan processed 83 thousand tons of ore, in 2018 it processed 303.1 thousand tons. Revenue…
In 2018 Ukraine decreased the output of semi-wrought gold by 61.5% YoY, to 5 kg. Unwrought silver (or powder) output also decreased – by 32.4%, to 1527 kg. Semi-wrought silver manufacture fell by 50.2%, to 495 kg. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-November 2018 Russia produced 290.3 tons of gold, up by 2% YoY. Mined gold output grew by 4%, to 243.89 tons. The manufacture of secondary and associated gold fell by 10%, to 14.43 tons and by 4%, to 31.98 tons respectively. Silver output grew by 8%, to 1 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2018 the largest gold extractor of Kamchatka region – Ametistovoye – produced 3105 kg of gold and 11.4 tons of silver, down by 29% and by 20% YoY respectively. The decrease in the output is not explained. This year the company intends to start constructing a mine at the Ametistovoye gold deposit. The license…
In 2024 the government of Russia expects the gold output to increase by 12.3% compared to 2018 (287.3 tons). Such indexes are set in the strategy of the mineral and raw material base development until 2035. In 2024 gold output is expected to hit 322.6 tons. Thus, annually gold extraction has to increase by 6…
According to preliminary estimates, in 2018 Kamchatka region extracted 5432,2 kg of gold, down by 20% YoY. Ore gold accounted for 5386 kg, down by 20%, and the rest (4.61 kg) for alluvial gold (down by 74%). Silver output decreased by 8.6%, to 16.2 tons. 10 companies were developing gold and silver deposits last year.…