Atlas Mining Company (formerly Petropavlovsk), which develops gold deposits in the Amur Region, intends to increase annual production to 15 tons of gold by 2029. This was announced by Alexey Afanasyev, Deputy General Director of Atlas Mining, at an event dedicated to the 155th anniversary of gold mining in the Amur region.
Currently, the company produces gold at three enterprises: Malomyrsky mine, Pioneer and Pokrovsky Autoclave and Hydrometallurgical Combine. In the three quarters of 2023, these enterprises, including the new Elginsky deposit, produced almost 7 tons of gold in total.
According to Alexey Afanasyev, in the second quarter of 2024 the company plans to commission an updated factory at the Albynsky mine, which will allow processing ores from the Elginsky deposit using new technology. The capacity of the new factory will be 3.6 million tons of ore per year.
In addition, in 2024 it is planned to start the development of the Bamsky deposit in the Tynda district with reserves of more than 100 tons of gold. The company acquired a mining license for the deposit this year, nedradv.ru reports.
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