{"id":1202477,"date":"2020-08-19T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1033133"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:50:08","slug":"alrosa-to-start-mining-upper-levels-of-inter-mine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1202477","title":{"rendered":"Alrosa to start mining upper levels of Inter mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alrosa (MCX: ALRS), the world\u2019s top diamond miner by output, has received approval<\/a> from the regulatory body in Russia to open up and develop reserves at the upper horizons of the International (Inter) underground mine. <\/p>\n

According to the company, production is expected to start in the Q4 2020.<\/p>\n

Underground mining at the International kimberlite pipe started in 1999.<\/p>\n

The first stage of production implied mining at the depth from 200 m to 560 m. Under the second stage, the extraction to be carried from 155 m to 200 m and at the deep horizons of the deposit. <\/p>\n

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International produced 2.2 million carats in 2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Current mining plan for 2019-2041 implies mining at the deeper levels down to 1,250 m mark as well as the development of the upper horizons, ALROSA said in a press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe company has already built the third, 347.4 m long shaft to extract these reserves. We expect to mine these reserves for about 10 years,\u201d said Igor Sobolev, ALROSA first deputy CEO and COO. <\/p>\n

International is located the subarctic Russian republic of Sakha.<\/p>\n

It opened in 1999 and yields some of the world\u2019s highest diamond grades, at 8.09 carats per tonne.<\/p>\n

It produced 2.2 million carats in 2019, contributing around 6% of the company\u2019s total output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the company, production is expected to start in the Q4 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202477"}],"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\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202526,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202477\/revisions\/1202526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}