Auction for gold in Buryatia. Evgeny Kislov: in the coming years we can expect an increase in gold mining in Buryatia

Business name

Quota for 2004 (kg)

Fact. performance

% completed

for the same period last year

deviation (+,-)

CJSC a/s Iskra (including Baunt)

20.8

17.0

JSC Priisk Tsipikansky

15.0

CJSC Vitimgeoprom (including OOO Gornyak Vitima)

CJSC Bagdara Mining and Geological Company

12.0

17.0

LLC a/s Eleninsky

18.0

12.0

JSC a/s Rassvet

SREO Dylacha

10.0

LLC a/s Sever

13.0

13.0

JSC a/s Voskhod

Chinakan LLC

LLC a/s Ukshum

Total:

1420

60.6

91.8

If the State Duma passes the law, it will be easy for any of us to start the life of a free prospector and go for the bird of luck to the Vitim, Tsipikan and other gold-bearing rivers of Buryatia.

For more than 200 years of Russian gold mining history, “black” prospecting is not a new profession. News of taiga riches attracted tens of thousands of fortune hunters. At different times, people who individually mine the yellow metal were called free workers, lone miners, and even predators.

"Black Digging"

In Buryatia, the history of “black mining” goes back to 1844, when in the territory of the present Bauntovsky district, 7 spools of 9 shares were mined at the Mariinsky and Innokentyevsky mines, that is, 30 grams 216 milligrams of yellow metal. In literally 10-15 years, as Vladimir Kozulin, a well-known local historian of the Bauntovsky district, says, all the rivers, springs and valleys of Vitim, Vitimkan, Chyna, Tsipa, Tsipikan were excavated by gold miners. Thus began the gold rush in the Barguzin taiga, as Baunt was called until 1925. A major gold miner in the Barguzin taiga, Yakov Frizer, in his book “Gold Mining in the Barguzin District and Its Needs,” published in Moscow in 1901, writes:

At the Solovyovsky mines, due to the rich gold content, work became more active. The days of widespread mining revelry have returned. The workers went out to work, which lasted only a few hours, in smart boots, flannel blouses and beaver hats, with watches in their pockets and rings in their hands. Some appeared in fox beshmets and silk sashes, bought at an expensive price from the shoulders of the manager himself...

Here, a gold miner wrote about those who sometimes worked as hired workers in the mines for meager pay. But there were free searchers and gold miners in the taiga, working alone or in small close-knit teams. They relied on their own strength, skill and, of course, luck. More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since then, but even now there are many such people. According to the Union of Gold Miners of the Russian Federation, in the main gold-bearing regions of the country - Chukotka, Yakutia, Krasnoyarsk and Transbaikal Territories, Magadan, Amur and Irkutsk regions, and the Republic of Buryatia, a total of more than 12 thousand people are engaged in mining.

"Golden Initiative"

According to the chairman of the People's Khural Committee on Economic Policy of the Republic of Belarus, Anatoly Kushnarev, the law on “free income” is being discussed in the State Duma, perhaps it will be adopted this year. However, until the law is adopted in its final reading, even the smallest handful of precious grains found by the police in a person’s pocket threatens to result in a sentence of two to seven years. This is what Article 191 of the Criminal Code says.

The issue of legalizing the free supply of gold was raised with renewed vigor at the interparliamentary association “Parliamentary Association of the North-West of Russia” and the Parliamentary Association “Far East and Transbaikalia” recently held in Blagoveshchensk. Buryatia was represented at this forum by deputies Tsydenzhap Batuev and Anatoly Kushnarev.

Another interesting proposal is to issue permission for gold mining for the population according to a simplified system on dumps, where dredging has already taken place, but there is still precious metal left, - said Anatoly Kushnarev.

"Pros and cons"

The general director of the “Zapadnaya” Mining Artel from the Muisky district, Valery Nazarov, expressed the position of the republic’s prospectors.

The position of the majority of mining enterprises towards the adoption of this law is extremely negative. All positive expected aspects will be offset, first of all, by an increase, I am sure that this will be the case, thefts from operating mining enterprises. We are lobbying against this law and, I think, will not be adopted. I’m not saying that only our organization is against it, this is also the majority of gold mining enterprises represented by the chairman of the Union of Prospectors and the chairman of the Union of Gold Miners of Russia Sergei Kashub,” said Valery Nazarov.

Supporters of the legalization of free income do not expect a large economic effect or a significant increase in gold mining due to this law. But recognition of free income is important from a social perspective, according to supporters of the bill. By the way, Chairman of the Magadan Regional Duma Sergei Abramov spoke about this at the interparliamentary association in Blagoveshchensk. He spoke about the experience of the pilot region. According to him, the “free supply” did not lead to an increase in gold production, but significantly reduced social tension.

A difficult issue for the region is the permission of free food. Modern Russian legislation does not provide for the use of non-industrial placers, said the head of the Bauntovsky Evenki district Nikolai Kovalev. - To obtain permission to mine gold, it is necessary to conduct exploration, calculate and approve reserves. In non-industrial placers there are no reserves (by definition), and there are no approved reserves - there is no permission to mine. It is necessary to amend the legislation so that licenses can be issued for the extraction of gold from non-industrial placers.

The northerners raised this issue in March during the visit of the acting governor. head of Alexey Tsydenov in the Bauntovsky district. Not long ago, the Bauntovsky district made proposals to the agenda of the congress of deputies of all levels, which will be held in Ulan-Ude in October. Chairman of the Council of Deputies Alexander Ochirov proposed re-entering the federal level with a law “on the free supply” of gold.

Prospector means to try

In his memoirs, a pensioner, former site manager of the Iskra mining artel in the Bauntovsky district, V.I. Krasnoyarov writes: “After all, it was like it used to be, before 1954, I took a gram and passed it. They received the money right away, and no one asked where they got it. After the war, front-line soldiers themselves organized metal mining and conducted exploration. After all, I had to feed my family. And schoolchildren also worked on gold all summer. From the age of 15, he panned gold with his father, 15 km from the Borovsky site. They used butara, a passageway, to thaw the sands in winter, they carried firewood on horses, and sawed it by hand. The prospectors of former times know how it was. It was a difficult time, but no one complained about any crisis because everyone was busy with business. Why not remember this experience now, while there are still old miners who remember how to do it? After all, this method of extraction also has its own characteristics and specifics. They could teach young people in special courses. The area has always relied on mining. But after working with the equipment, there remains rock in each side for manual extraction. The free supply is beneficial to everyone, and, first of all, to the region. These include contributions to the budget and new jobs.”

Mining tourism

By the way, the main argument of opponents of free mining is: “The state will not be able to control the work of miners.” In their opinion, the legalization of free trade will not lead to any noticeable increase in gold production. On a national scale, this will amount to hundreds of kilograms, that is, a fraction of a percent. And today, without the adoption of a law, a large number of people are engaged in gold mining using primitive manual methods. And they are forced, willingly or unwillingly, to come into conflict with the law. Some of them fall under the control of criminal structures.

Most countries have long accepted “free supply” as a given and realized that there is no reason to ban mining. Ultimately, the precious metal will still end up in the state treasury. In the USA, Switzerland, Canada, and Australia, “gold or gold mining tourism” has even gained popularity. For a modest fee, the mines give you a prospecting tray and invite you to try your luck.

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The draft law provides that in depleted industrial sites, alluvial and small deposits with reserves of up to 10-15 kilograms of gold, private individuals will be allowed to mine precious metals. At the moment, there are thousands of sites in Russia where gold reserves are less than 10 kg. They are of no interest for industrial mining, but private entrepreneurs could continue to wash the gold that remains after mining the placers. In order for individual entrepreneurs to be able to pan for gold, according to the authors of the bill, it is necessary to simplify the procedures for access to subsoil for Russian citizens, issue them simplified licenses for the use of sites without a competition (auction), introduce a simplified taxation system for them, as well as a simplified procedure for accepting gold. Now individual mining of gold, silver and non-ferrous metals, which existed in Tsarist Russia and even in the Soviet Union until 1954 inclusive, is prohibited in our country.

The Republic of Buryatia belongs to the areas of formation of a new SME with attractive geological and economic indicators and, along with the Irkutsk and Chita regions, belongs to the Baikal gold-bearing region.

The forecast resources of the Republic of Buryatia make up 3.92% of the total in Russia (13th place).

The main share of predicted resources is located in the North Baikal, Muya and East Sayan geological and economic regions.

The balance reserves of gold in Buryatia are accounted for at 304 deposits, including 282 placer deposits; 19 indigenous, 1 man-made and 2 complex.

The Republic of Buryatia in terms of balance reserves in primary and alluvial gold deposits (excluding complex deposits) ranks 14th in Russia (1.95%) among the constituent entities of the Federation. The basis of the mineral resource base of gold in Buryatia is the proven reserves of the East Sayan deposits (44%), the adjacent North Baikal, Mui and Ikat-Bagdarinsky geological and economic regions, which contain 43% of the balance reserves of the republic, in the Dzhidinsky and Kurba-Eravnsky districts accounts for 13%.

The balance reserves of gold in Buryatia contained in primary deposits amount to 53.7%. The average gold content in developed deposits is 16.2-21.7 g/t, in those being prepared for development - 7.3-21.6 g/t. The main share of balance reserves of ore gold is concentrated in such deposits as Zun-Kholbinskoye (Eastern Sayan) and Irokindinskoye (South Muysky Range).

About 30% of gold reserves are contained in complex polymetallic deposits, the development of which is not currently underway.

Placer gold reserves amount to 16.4%. The average gold content in sands ranges from 350-600 g/m 3 for shallow placers, to 3-6 g/m 3 for deep placers.

The distributed fund contains 100% of the reserves of ore gold and 70.5% of alluvial gold.

The undistributed fund contains the least attractive placer deposits for mining – small, remote, low metal content and buried placers. Currently, only one deep placer is being mined on the territory of the Republic of Buryatia. On a small scale, re-mining of technogenic placers and gale-ephel dumps is carried out on the territory of the republic.

Since 1993, the increase in placer gold reserves has ceased to replenish their redemption during mining.

Since 1986, the overall level of production in the republic grew steadily until 2002 (from 1612 to 8170 kg) and then began to decline, reaching 6145 kg in 2008 (this happened due to a decrease in alluvial gold production (since 2004 it has fallen by more than 2 times: from 2982 to 1172 kg) 2010 was not a turning point (Fig. 1).

In the period 2000–2004, gold mining of placer gold more or less stabilized, reaching almost 3 tons. But since 2001, it has sharply declined.

It is not a big revelation that the mineral resource complex of Russia, including Buryatia, which was created before the early 90s and was highly resistant to survival, found itself in a critical condition under conditions of ill-conceived economic reform. Over the past fifteen years, the extraction of minerals, including gold, has not been compensated by an increase in reserves. Explored reserves have dropped sharply, and their quality has also deteriorated.

Since 2002, the existing mechanism for the reproduction of SMEs was abolished, federal tasks in the field of geology were transferred to budget financing, and the constituent entities of the Russian Federation were practically deprived of sources of investment in the study of subsoil.

Due to insufficient reproduction of the mineral resource base, the preparation of alluvial gold sites for licensing lags behind the level of demand.

There are several capable enterprises left on the territory of Buryatia that can carry out geological exploration work themselves and replenish SMEs (Sininda LLC, Kurba s/a LLC, Vitimgeoprom CJSC). In other cases, the quality of explored reserves is low, since small artels are not staffed with qualified personnel.

Despite the fairly high cost of a gram of gold, its mining has ceased in the Zakamensky and Dzhidinsky regions, although there are prospects there. The predicted resources according to Ignatovich are 14.6 tons, including cat. R 1 – 1.2 t; R 2 – 2.3 t and R 3 11.1 t.

The reserves of the distributed fund are located mainly in 4 gold alluvial areas out of 9 (Fig. 2):

The decline in gold production leads to a deterioration in the social situation of the population and an outflow of labor associated with gold mining. The decrease in gold mining, in addition to the above reasons, is mainly due to:

– with the absence of centralized investment loans;

– with a high level of taxation;

– the dependence of many enterprises, especially in the Bauntovsky district, on the Bank, which is the holder of a controlling stake.

All of the above does not allow mining enterprises to achieve the necessary profitability to ensure normal reproduction of products, so currently many enterprises are on the verge of ceasing production activities due to financial bankruptcy, which will inevitably lead to a landslide decline in gold production in the republic. In placer gold mining, it has been going on for 3 years.

The following are the ways to increase gold production:

– changing tax policy and creating legal conditions for preferential taxation to attract investors and entrepreneurs to the gold mining industry;

– in increasing labor productivity;

– replacing outdated washing and finishing equipment with more modern ones, which will increase metal production by 200 - 260 kg (20%) per year due to additional extraction of fine gold. One of the real ways to increase the production of placer gold is also to improve the technology for processing gold-bearing sands using highly efficient modern washing and finishing equipment (PGB-1000, Romashka, MOD-2, MOD-0.2, concentration tables, various separators, etc.). d.). The use of such equipment will increase gold production by 10-20% compared to traditional technologies;

– in changing the policy of enterprise management from financiers to professional geologists;

– replacing auctions for small deposits (up to 100 kg) with competitions. From the analysis of data on the territorial balance of reserves, it follows that some subsoil users, having received a significant number of licenses for alluvial gold objects, do not show sufficient activity in their development. At the sites declared in the “Explored” column, reserves of ten-year-old approval have been listed for years; at many sites “Developed” and “Prepared for development”, according to the annual TBZ accounting, zero production is listed. It is difficult to explain this by waiting for a rise in gold prices, since gold prices are currently higher than ever, and “waiting” will most likely lead to their decline. Then both marginally active and even part of the active reserves quickly transform into inactive ones;

– in supporting small enterprises during production in fields with residual reserves and reduced quality.

– in providing assistance in revaluing residual inventories, since enterprises themselves usually do not have qualified specialists.

– in the true picture of the objects under licensing where mining operations were carried out.

To increase the efficiency of geological exploration for placer gold, it is necessary to take, first of all, organizational measures to strengthen the geological and technical services of enterprises performing geological exploration, increasing the technical equipment of the work, as well as strict control by the Department over the direction and methodology of work, the quality of work and documentation.

At present, mining from deep placers has almost completely ceased, although they are all licensed (slow work is being carried out in some places).

In conclusion, we can name several gold alluvial areas where it is possible to obtain an increase in alluvial gold reserves: the Severobaikalsky region (valleys of the Sininda, Namama, Ukolkit, Turlikon, Amnunda rivers), forecast resources of the Olokit and Bol rivers. Chuya is estimated at 24.5 tons (Pozdnyakova, 2008); Muisky district (the rivers Yanguda, Kelyana, Sunuekit, the predicted resources of which are estimated at 21 tons); Bauntovsky district (basins of the Verkh Tsipa, Amalat, Kydzhimit rivers); Eravninsky district. In the East Sayan Reserve, it is recommended to carry out a small amount of prospecting (drilling) work at the Samartinskaya Reserve with the aim of possibly identifying deep buried gold placers and transferring the predicted resources of category P 3 (9.2 tons) to industrial categories.

As can be seen from all of the above, the situation in the gold mining industry is difficult, but not hopeless.

Many people sometimes wonder where they can find gold. Over the past few years, Russia has been ranked 5th in the world in terms of gold production. For many Russians today, the search for gold is becoming a matter of life and a good source of income. Finding a nugget of gold is great happiness for a passionate gold digger.

History of gold mining in Russia

The history of mining this mineral in Russia goes back several centuries. Russia has been in search of gold nuggets since 1719, when Peter the Great issued a decree to begin gold mining. Back in the 18th century, residents of our country wondered how to find gold.

The precious metal was first discovered at the beginning of the 18th century in Eastern Transbaikalia. The next place where the search for gold nuggets was crowned with success was Altai. But in these places the metal was obtained not from gold deposits, but from deposits of silver-lead ores. It was possible to find indigenous gold only many years later in the Urals. This happened in the area of ​​modern Yekaterinburg. In May 1745, an ordinary peasant Erofei Sidorovich found gold and decided to build himself a house. He showed his friend the gold he had found. A friend worked as a silversmith. He realized that the gold nugget was real. Experts arrived at the site of the find and continued the search with tools. But, unfortunately, they were unable to find anything then. Only after a long time did the search continue at this place. Gold miners decided to dig a mine, and then the search was crowned with success. A gold mine was opened on this territory, which received the name “Primary”.

“Gold Rush” in Russia and America

In the 20s of the 19th century, when people realized that finding this fossil was a very real task, a real gold rush began in Russia. Mamin-Sibiryak described it very well in his novel “Gold”. Since the middle of the 19th century, experts found the answer to the question of where to look for gold, and intensive mining of the mineral began in many regions of our country: in Altai, in the Nerchinsky district, in the Belgorod region, in the area of ​​​​many rivers of Siberia: the Yenisei, Kolyma, Lena, Amur and many others.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the number of gold deposits in Russia totaled 5,800. About 75% of all deposits today are located in Siberia and the Far East of the country. The largest volumes are produced in the Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk Territories, Irkutsk, Amur, Sverdlovsk, Magadan regions, the Republic of Sakha and Buryatia, as well as in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

At the end of the 19th century, the gold rush swept across America. In 1896, the New World was shocked by the news that a large deposit had been discovered in the Klondike region. The whole country has come to where the gold is. From there, in less than 100 years, 390 tons of precious metal were exported, the value of which is approximately 4.4 billion US dollars. Then news of places rich in this valuable mineral overtook America at a moment of deepest crisis. The country was then experiencing a huge number of bankruptcies because the economy suffered from stock market surges. Thousands of people have traveled to Alaska in search of gold nuggets. As a result, the gold rush had a good impact on the development of the economy of Western Canada, Alaska, and the northwestern part of the United States.

Mining devices

To start mining, you need to purchase some equipment:

1. Metal detector. Today it is not difficult to buy a metal detector. They are sold in every city, and they can also be ordered in the online store. Metal detectors vary in characteristics. They have different operating purity, detection depth, device power supply, discrimination quality, i.e. ability to distinguish between metals.
2. Tester. This is a device that determines the content of precious metal in an alloy within 5 seconds.
3. Gold sample. These devices run on electricity. They have tentacles with high sensitivity. With their help, you can search for metal at the bottom of the river and in other hard-to-reach places. If we find nests of gold, the light on the device will signal this. When we search with a sampler, the process becomes many times faster and better quality.
4. Trays. Devices for filtering water in streams in order to determine the presence of gold in it.

Gold mining technologies

There are three main methods for searching for gold:

1. Extraction using dredge. This is a gold mining machine designed to flush water from a river. It is based on the principle of a tray, but there are a lot of trays on it. However, the dredge has a deplorable effect on the environment, destroying rivers.
2. Mining by gravity differentiation. The technology consists of grinding rock containing metal. After grinding, the entire mass is placed in a special centrifuge, in which the metal is separated from the rest of the mass.
3. Metal detector. On average, it is believed that there is only 5 kg of pure gold per ton of land. Thus, gold mining is a rather unprofitable undertaking. However, there are deposits in which the gold content is much higher. You can find such deposits using a metal detector.

Mining with a metal detector

If previously minerals were mined without a metal detector, then in 1996 special devices appeared in Russia, with which it became much easier to go in search of gold nuggets. Like many years ago, people who are looking for gold are concerned about the question of where to look for gold. Many people go in search of gold nuggets every year. If the trip for gold is successful, you can significantly increase your fortune. Today, the cost of one gram of 375 sample is 980 rubles, 500 sample is 1280 rubles, and 583/585 is 1850 rubles. As you can see, gold mining is a very profitable activity. Where is the maximum gold?

The best place to mine gold

Many people ask, is there gold in the mountains? The answer is clear - yes, there is. Mountain streams are a very fishy place for gold miners. Neither the sea, nor the swamp, nor the rivers provide so many opportunities for gold miners. Mining for gold in streams is a very good solution. Metal gets into them from mountain slopes. Lighter and lighter rocks are carried away by water, and gold, due to its gravity, accumulates and forms gold-bearing placers. In Russia, a record amount of gold is found in mountain streams. In search of gold nuggets, gold miners turn to rafts—bedrock that lies beneath the pebbles of a stream. Gold is deposited there. The raft, located under the pebbles of the stream, stores the largest gold nuggets. Above the raft, of course, there is also gold, but in much smaller quantities. The higher the distance from the raft, the less likely it is to find gold.

When searching for gold with a metal detector, the difficulty arises that sometimes it is located so deep that it is not possible to get it with a metal detector. Therefore, you need to choose places where the raft is as close to the surface as possible. Often such places are found in the form of rocks. For example, there are many of these in Buryatia. The surface of the rocks was once the bottom of a stream, but after that the stream created a deeper channel. By the way, it will also be useful to examine the area of ​​rocks above the water at a height of up to 15-20 m. Gold deposits in rock cracks can be easily identified with a metal detector. If there are no obvious rocks, it is recommended to explore the entire stream in the hope of luck. By the way, there are criteria by which it is possible to determine the probability of finding gold in a stream. A specific indication of the presence of gold in the stream is a large number of pebbles and quartz boulders. Gold is often found in quartz veins.

There is another technique for determining whether gold can be found in a stream - panning. This is an old way of searching for gold. Panning should be done approximately 500 m above the mouth. Washing is carried out with a special tray. If during washing there is at least one piece of gold in the tray, then there is a high probability of finding gold in this place. But the tray is not a 100% diagnostic method, since large pieces of gold do not fall into it, but only small grains. To search in streams, you need to use more sensitive metal detectors, such as EurekaGold, SD2200, GP3000.

Is there gold in the ground?

Gold miners are concerned with the question of whether it is possible to find gold in the ground. Experts answer yes. Countless amounts of wealth are stored underground. What are the ways to extract gold from underground? First, you can search using a metal detector equipped with a special discriminator, a device that helps identify precious metals. But, in addition to the classical method, some people go in search of gold without professional equipment, relying on miraculous devices like vines. The vine is a kind of pendulum that supposedly changes the nature of its movement when approaching the treasured place with gold. But such extraction methods are far from scientific. Of course, it is better to go on a search armed with special tools and not rely on magic.

10.01.09 12:24

Laboratory soil analysis discovered precious metal in the very center of the city

Soil samples taken from a pit on Borsoev Street, where the construction of the Buryat business center is underway, showed the presence of gold in sufficient quantities for its industrial mining. If such an amount of gold as in this sample is inherent in the entire land of Ulan-Ude, then 20 grams of gold are contained in every ton of the capital’s land.

Scientists in Buryatia do not exclude the possibility that there may be placer gold in the vicinity of Ulan-Ude. According to the testimony of geologists from the Buryat Geocentre, earlier, 40 years ago, during construction, all pits and ditches were documented by the Geological Department to assess the barrenness and radiation safety. 20 years ago, an ecological-geochemical survey of Ulan-Ude was carried out for the presence of contaminants in the soil, and, among other things, secondary gold halos were identified. But no one was specifically looking for gold in Ulan-Ude.

We decided to look for gold on our own in the capital of Buryatia and took a soil sample at a construction site on Borsoev Street. The soil was sent to the state enterprise "Republican Analytical Center", a certified laboratory that conducts this kind of analysis. The results surprised not only us, but also the laboratory staff. The test showed the gold content in the sample to be 20 grams per ton. Of course, this does not mean that you should rush to mine gold in the city.

One sample is not enough for a serious conversation about the deposit. Hundreds, if not thousands, of such samples are needed. However, the fact that the first random handful of earth contained so much gold can speak volumes. However, the geologists with whom we discussed this issue put forward an interesting explanation for the presence of gold in the sample.

100 years ago, the first map of gold content in the vicinity of Verkhneudinsk was compiled. On it, many honeydews were “gilded”: they showed the gold content sufficient for industrial extraction. All plots were purchased from prospectors by merchants. However, initial attempts to deploy the Klondike near Verkhneudinsk were unsuccessful. It turned out that cunning prospectors, to be sure, “salted” honeydew with gold - they shot left and right at them with gold sand instead of shot, in order to be sure to sell their claims to merchants. Experts at the site washed up “pellets”, and this was enough for the deal to take place. Thus, prospectors made huge money from the increased price of land. The first attempts of merchants to “take gold to the mountain” shed light on the “pre-sale preparation” of sites by prospectors.

What used to be the outskirts of Verkhneudinsk is today the center of the city of Ulan-Ude. Is the gold "salting" of miners still making itself felt?

The story of gold shot and the “swindle” of merchants then became a household word, and all attempts to prospect and pan for gold in the vicinity of Verkhneudinsk for industrial mining were met with prejudice and were stopped. But if industrialists and merchants abandoned these attempts, rightly fearing for their authority in the local community, simply not wanting to look like “suckers,” then the loners, who did not care about secular rumors, had their own reason. The city was founded as a fort at the intersection of trade routes. The location was chosen with a good view and near the water. In the vicinity of the fort, and even on the trade routes, where there are a lot of dashing people, neither a single prospector nor an artel will ever pan for gold. Prospectors always moved away from the “lode”, where there was always a higher risk of being attacked, away from human eyes.

That is, no one has ever really looked for gold in the territory of the capital of Buryatia and in its environs. This tradition continued during Soviet times. Perhaps we should break it now?

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Next year Commerzbank will most likely abandon trading in precious metals in bullion, and will also stop providing services for storage, transportation, and refining of precious metals. In 2016, EZ OCM increased the production volume of finished products by 20 percent

The Ekaterinburg non-ferrous metals processing plant, part of the international group of companies PLAURUM, summed up the results of 2016. The enterprise increased its main production indicators, but its revenue and net profit were below the level of 2015, which is typical for all enterprises in the domestic industry. More than 16 billion rubles have been invested in the development of the mining industry of the Khabarovsk Territory

The progress in the implementation of the comprehensive regional program “Development of the mining industry in the Khabarovsk Territory for the period until 2017” was discussed at a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Territory, chaired by the Deputy Government of the Khabarovsk Territory - Minister of Natural Resources Alexander Ermolin.