RUSSIA – GOLD MINE
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA DETAILED environmental impact assessment of a planned gold and silver mine in Russia's remote Kamchatka peninsular suggests that 1.13 million tonnes of ore will be mined over six years by British company Trans-Siberian Gold plc. Carried out by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the assessment said that the ore was high grade, with 22.2 g/t au gold density. It said 44,000 square metres of void requiring backfilling would be created at the Asacha deposit, which is held by Russian company Trevozhnoye Zaryevo, of which ...
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