Russian Federal Agency for Mineral Resources Plans to Auction Gold Deposit with Over 20 Tons of Reserves in Q3 2026

en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Russian Federal Agency for Mineral Resources plans to auction the Zergun gold placer deposit in the Trans-Baikal Territory in the third quarter of 2026. The deposit has gold reserves (including off-balance reserves) exceeding 20 tons.

The area of the deposit is 10.61 square kilometers. The placer gold reserves include 75 kg of C1 category and 85 kg of C1 off-balance; the hard rock gold reserves include 8,800 kg of C2 category and 11,063 kg of C2 off-balance; the silver reserves include 4.2 tons of C2 category and 5.4 tons of C2 off-balance.

Other deposits planned for auction in the third quarter of the 2026 license list include: the Burustakh-Poputny Creek in the Oymyakonsky District of Yakutia, which is a right tributary of the Nera River, with an area of 3.88 square kilometers and C1 placer gold reserves of 341 kg; the Tigrinoye deposit in the Krasnoarmeysky District of Primorsky Krai, with an area of 8.54 square kilometers, C2 silver reserves of 850 tons and C2 off-balance of 120.6 tons, B tin reserves of 37,520 tons, C1 of 132,974 tons, C2 of 15,586 tons, B off-balance of 612 tons, C1 off-balance of 11,555 tons, C2 off-balance of 57,119 tons, B tungsten trioxide reserves of 14,322 tons, C1 of 45,538 tons, C2 of 8,454 tons, B off-balance of 536 tons, C1 off-balance of 5,102 tons, C2 off-balance of 20,979 tons; the Kapayevskoye deposit in the Ust-Ilimsky District of Irkutsk Oblast, with an area of 15.66 square kilometers, B iron (magnetite) ore reserves of 36,672 thousand tons, C1 of 465,705 thousand tons, C2 of 101,776 thousand tons, C1 off-balance of 18,401 thousand tons, C2 off-balance of 32,530 thousand tons.