en.Wedoany.com Reported - Exploration company ALMAR (АЛМАР) Public Joint-Stock Company increased diamond reserves by 180.08 thousand carats at the Beenchime (Беенчиме) placer in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in 2025. According to company data, the deposit, discovered in 2023, now has total reserves of 636.02 thousand carats, including 185.4 thousand carats in Category C1 (average grade 0.36 carats per cubic meter) and 450.62 thousand carats in Category C2 (average grade 0.26 carats per cubic meter). Predicted resources for categories P1+P2 amount to 1,799 thousand carats (0.2 carats per cubic meter), of which P1 accounts for 1,284 thousand carats.
At the Khatystakh (Хатыстах) block, where ALMAR also operates, predicted placer resources for categories P1+P2 as of the end of 2025 total 14,830 thousand carats, with an average grade of 4.47 carats per cubic meter, including 3,640 thousand carats in Category P1. In 2025, the company completed 376 exploration wells (769 linear meters) at Beenchime, collecting 666 bulk samples (2,023 cubic meters); at Khatystakh, 525 boreholes (7,336 linear meters) were drilled, and 470 core samples (4,019 kilograms) were collected.
ALMAR's investment in diamond block exploration and assessment in 2025 amounted to 270.649 million rubles, nearly half of the previous year's figure. The company holds a 100% stake in Arctic Mining Company LLC (ООО «Арктическая горная компания»), which conducts geological exploration at the Beenchime block in the Olenyok District of Yakutia and the Khatystakh block in the Bulun District, areas previously unexplored. ALMAR's largest shareholder is Lyudmila Nikolaeva (Людмила Николаева, holding 32.37%), wife of the head of Yakutia. Other shareholders include Pavel Andreev (Павел Андреев, 16.29%), Sergey Grakhanov (Сергей Граханов, 12.14%), Tatyana Popova (Татьяна Попова, 12.14%), Natural Resources LLC (ООО «Природные Ресурсы», 6.67%), Polarctic Management LLC (ООО «Поларктик менеджмент», 8.09%), and Viktor Russkikh (Виктор Русских, 5.44%).
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