en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Itaka gold mining complex project of Russia's Mangazeya Mining (Мангазея Майнинг) in the Trans-Baikal Territory has received positive state ecological assessment conclusions from the Russian Main State Expert Review Authority (Главгосэкспертиза, Glavgosexpertiza) and the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Росприроднадзор). The project documentation was prepared by experts from RAM Engineering (РАМ Инжиниринг, a subsidiary of Rock End Mill Group (Рок Энд Милл)).

According to the company's previously announced plans, the first phase of the project aims to extract a total of 2.369 million tons of cyanidable ore containing 4.63 tons of gold and 10.08 tons of silver, as well as 726,000 tons of refractory ore containing 1.3 tons of gold and 5.93 tons of silver. Mining operations will be conducted at two open pits in the Surmyanaya Gorka and Maleevsky sections. The refractory ore is planned to be processed at a newly built gravity-flotation plant, while the cyanidable ore will be processed at the Nasedkino Gold Cyanidation Plant (ЗИФ Наседкино).

Currently, Mangazeya Mining is conducting industrial trial development of the Itaka deposit. Since December 2024, the company has been processing extracted ore at the Nasedkino Gold Cyanidation Plant. The project is expected to be commissioned no later than 2028. The investment estimate for the development of the Itaka deposit is $250 million, with the company additionally allocating 7.5 billion rubles for the reconstruction of the Nasedkino Gold Cyanidation Plant.

The Itaka deposit is located near the town of Itaka in the Mogochinsky Municipal District of the Trans-Baikal Territory of the Russian Federation. Its balance sheet reserves (C1+C2) amount to 24.49 million tons of ore containing 66.76 tons of gold and 182.5 tons of silver; off-balance sheet reserves amount to 15.41 million tons of ore containing 38.53 tons of gold and 181.3 tons of silver.