RE: OMG4 Nov 2019 17:05
Churakov, before joining Summa, was an analyst at Goldman Sachs, and then deputy director of the Russian subsidiary Morgan Stanley, specializing in the mining sector. While working at Summa, he served on the boards of directors of companies in which she had a stake - the Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company (YATEK, Magomedov had a controlling stake), the only gas supplier in Yakutia, and the transport company FESCO (32.5 %). He left the group after Magomedov was arrested in March 2018 on charges of organizing a criminal community.
Eurasia, in addition to the existing project in the Urals, owns a license for the Monchetundra deposit, whose reserves are estimated at 60 tons of platinum and palladium, the expected project level of production is 4 tons per year. It is planned to further actively increase the resource base through the development of adjacent areas in Monchegorsk district with total reserves of up to 400 tons of platinoids and gold, according to a presentation by the company, which RBC got acquainted with. The necessary capital expenditures for the launch of the deposit, including a plant with a capacity of 1.7 million tons of ore per year, will amount to $ 176 million.
South Africa accounts for about 70% of global platinum production, but its largest companies, Anglo American and Impala, are operating near the breakeven point and local reserves are depleted. In Russia, the cost of production is much lower, including because it can be conducted in an open way. In South Africa, the average cost of an ounce of platinum (1 ounce corresponds to about 31.1 grams) was $ 953 by the end of 2017, in Russia - about $ 300, said RBC senior director of ACRA Maxim Khudalov. According to his estimates, the cost of production at the West Kytlym field may be higher (according to a source close to Eurasia shareholders, about $ 360 per ounce), but it is still several times cheaper than the average in South Africa. In areas with richer ore in Russia, the cost price is lower, in addition, the ruble may continue to decline against the US dollar, which will improve the production economy, Khudalov notes.