{"id":1161616,"date":"2020-01-23T18:17:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T00:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1012041"},"modified":"2020-01-23T18:17:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T00:17:34","slug":"centerra-receives-permits-to-re-start-mining-at-kumtor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1161616","title":{"rendered":"Centerra receives permits to re-start mining at Kumtor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centerra Gold has announced that it received approvals and permits to re-start open pit mining at its Kumtor operation.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kyrgyz state agency has approved Centerra\u2019s mine development plan for this year which includes a revised waste dumping plan and safety measures with waste placement in the Central Valley and Sarytor waste rock dumps.<\/p>\n<p>Open pit mining is ramping up with full production rates expected in the next few days; the mill is currently processing stockpiled ore.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Centerra reported a significant movement at the Lysii waste rock dump at Kumtor. Two employees were missing following the incident. While open pit mining was halted with a re-evaluation of the mine plan; the mill continued to process stockpiled ore with sufficient stockpiles at the site to maintain expected gold output through to the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The mining fronts and infrastructure were not impacted by the material movement.<\/p>\n<p>Centerra is completing an internal review and cooperating with the Kyrgyz authorities on an inquiry into the Lysii waste rock dump. Following a six-week search, the two missing employees were not located and the company has stopped the search effort with consent of the families involved and the Kyrgyz state.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Kumtor, Centerra Gold operates the Mount Milligan mine in B.C., is building the Oksut gold mine in Turkey and holds the Kemess and Greenstone projects in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Latest company-wide production guidance for 2019 was for approximately 748,000 gold oz. at all-in sustaining costs of $728 per oz., with Kumtor contributing 575,000 oz. to 590,000 oz. at AISCs of $635 to $685 per oz.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Canadian Mining Journal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open pit mining is ramping up with full production rates expected in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161616"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161821,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161616\/revisions\/1161821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}