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Vorontsovskoe (Voro) deposit is located 450 km to the north from Yekaterinburg, 20 km to the south from Krasnoturinsk.
Degtyarskoe deposit is located 40 km south-west from Yekaterinburg, 380 km from Voro.
Two types of ore are mined at Voro: primary and oxidized.
- Primary ore processing is conducted at CIP Plant.
- Oxidized ore is processed at the plant using heal leaching and Merrill-Crow processes.
2009 – completion of installation and commissioning under the project of reconstruction of primary ore processing plant to increase production up to 900 000 tons per year. As the part of the project filtration section was commissioned and desorption-electrowinning section was reconstructed.
Mining of Degtyarskoe deposit was started in 2009. In 2010 it’s scheduled to process 220 000 tons of ore from the deposit on existing facilities of Voro CIP Plant.
In 2009 volume of gold produced at Voro increased by 14,1%.
| Vorontsovskoe deposit |
| Mining method |
Open pit mining |
| Recovery method |
Heap leaching (oxidized ore, Plant-1), «CIP» (primary ore, Plant-2) |
| Ore composition |
Oxidized (loose) ore; primary gold-sulphide vein-disseminated ore |
| Degtyarskoe deposit |
| Mining method |
Open pit mining |
| Recovery method |
«CIP» (on facilities of Voro Plant) |
| Ore composition |
Oxidized (loose) ore; primary gold-sulphide vein-disseminated ore |
Licenses:
- SVE 00696 BR dated 17.09.1998 for exploration and open pit mining of Vorontsovskoe gold deposit (license holder – CJSC «Gold of Northern Ural»).
- SVE 01865 BR dated 15.12.2004 – gold and silver exploration and mining from brown iron ore of Degtyarskoe deposit; license holder – (LLC «Ural Exploration Company»)
Click below for details on Ore reserves and mineral resources Statement
Click here for operation results of Voro
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