en.Wedoany.com Reported - A bulletin released by the government of the Trans-Baikal Territory following a visit by Governor Alexander Osipov indicates that gold reserves at the Alchikoy deposit may increase to 30 tons. This information comes from an official press release issued by the territorial government.

The press release states that in 2019, the deposit's reserves were estimated at 18 tons, and additional exploration work has now shown the potential to reach 30 tons. In 2025, the Alchikoy gold extraction plant produced 1.303 tons of gold, an increase of nearly 6% compared to the 1.23 tons produced in 2024.

The processing plant has a design capacity of 1.2 million tons of ore per year, with an actual capacity reaching 1.5 million tons per year. Investments by Solovyovsky Gold Mine Joint-Stock Company (АО «Прииск Соловьевский») in the deposit development project have exceeded 5 billion rubles. The mining and processing complex houses a chemical analysis laboratory capable of analyzing 10,000 to 15,000 samples per month.

The Alchikoy gold deposit is located in the Chernyshevsky District of the Trans-Baikal Territory, 10 kilometers from the Aksenovo-Zilovo station. It employs open-pit mining and direct cyanidation technology for gold extraction.

Solovyovsky Gold Mine Joint-Stock Company (АО «Прииск Соловьевский») extracts gold from deposits in the Skovorodino and Tynda districts of the Amur Region, as well as in the Karymskoye, Chita, and Shilka districts of the Trans-Baikal Territory. The company operates Russia's largest fleet of gold dredges, consisting of ten 250-liter dredges, and is developing the Solovyovsky mine field in the Amur River region and the Alchikoy deposit in the Trans-Baikal region.

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