RE: Astana UK Brokers19 Jun 2025 01:35
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Polymetal to build new mining and processing plant in Sverdlovsk region with capacity over 4.5 tons of gold per year.
Polymetal plans to create a new hub for processing gold-bearing ores near Nizhnyaya Salda in the Sverdlovsk region. According to the company's corporate publication, construction of the mining and processing plant will begin this year, and the factory is expected to be launched by 2029. The gold recovery plant with a capacity of 3 million tons of ore per year will operate using CIP technology with the production of Dore alloy. After the plant reaches its design capacity, the Salda ZRK will begin producing more than 4.5 tons of gold per year. The new hub for processing non-refractory gold-bearing ores already has a raw material base: the Pavlovskoye and Maminskoye deposits, and the Pershinskoye deposit is being prepared. In the future, Polymetal plans to conduct exploration work on the Aramashevsky, Nikitinsky, and Petrokamensky sites.
As of 2022, Pavlovsky's resources for open-pit mining under JORC were estimated at 9.7 million tonnes of ore with an average grade of 2.3 g/t and a total gold volume of 0.7 million ounces. Polymetal JSC is Russia's largest silver producer and one of the leading gold miners. According to Interfax, the company produced about 39 tons of precious metals in gold equivalent in 2024. The enterprises are located in Magadan and Sverdlovsk regions, Khabarovsk Krai, Yakutia, Chukotka. Now the company belongs to the Mangazeya Group of Companies of Sergey Yanchukov. Bosh....