Russian gold producer Trans-Siberian Gold has appointed Oleg Ugryumov as chief mine engineer of the Asacha mine, in South Kamchatka, with immediate effect.
Ugryumov, who has 26 years of experience in the mining industry, was previously the technical services manager at Canadian miner Kinross Gold’s Kupol gold mine in Chukotka, where he was responsible for the organisation and preparation of mine design plans and permitting, as well as for the construction of infrastructure facilities on the mine surface.