Gold production in Chukotka grows by 19%

In January-September of the current year, subsoil users of the Chukotsky Autonomous District increased gold production by 19% as compared with the same period of the last year to 16.4 tons. The production of silver fell by 16% to 12.7 tons, the Adviser of the Department of Industrial Policy, Construction and Housing and Public Utilities of the regional Administration Elena Kopat reported.

Today the main volume of precious metals production falls on enterprises, which develop ore mines: the Chukotskaya mining and geological company, the mine Karalveem, the mine Valunisty, the companies Maiskoye and Severnoye Zoloto.

From the beginning of the year, the Chukotskaya mining and geological company produced 10.1 tons of gold at the Kupol deposit that is by 0.71 tons less than in the same period of 2012, and 114.4 tons of silver that is by 28.7 tons less as compared with the level of the last year.