Seligdar, a company that is part of the Russian Mining Association, is preparing to develop the Gladkoye deposit in the Purikan area of Yakutia. The company plans to begin mining in 2027 and complete extraction of its balance reserves by the end of 2029. The project will be developed entirely by open-pit mining.
Development will take place in two stages. During the first stage, in 2027, builders will construct the Northern and Western open pits, extracting up to 1 million cubic meters of rock mass. The second stage, scheduled for 2028–2029, will include the launch of the Southern and Eastern open pits. Once the operation reaches full capacity, it will be able to process 1,216.6 thousand tonnes of ore per year.
Ore processing will be organized at the nearby Samolazovsky production complex, located just 5–7 kilometers from the open pits. The complex will use heap leaching, a technology that makes it possible to recover gold without building an expensive processing plant.
The Gladkoye deposit’s C1+C2 reserves amount to about 1,742 kilograms of gold and 15.5 tonnes of silver. Seligdar carried out exploration in the Purikan area from 2016 to 2023. The total volume of operational reserves to be mined over three years reaches 2,783 thousand tonnes of ore.
The new project will allow the company to increase gold production in the region by using open-pit mining and the proximity of existing infrastructure. For Yakutia, it means additional jobs and tax revenues.
Source: @gorprom
Image: Seligdar
