{"id":2745,"date":"2013-07-15T00:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T00:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2013-07-15T00:12:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T00:12:34","slug":"montana-firm-helps-russian-gold-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"Montana firm helps Russian gold miner"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Brian
Brian Sheridan, Modern Machinery president, stands next to an articulated truck in Modern Machinery\u2019s repair shop in Missoula last week. In addition to the bulldozers, Modern is currently working on shipping a dozen substantially larger 240-ton trucks to the gold mine project. The trucks have tires that are 12 feet in diameter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Jenna Cederberg<\/strong>
\nThe Montana Standard<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

MISSOULA, Montana \u2014 The search for ore at the third-largest gold mine in the world \u2014 located in a subarctic, far eastern region of remote Russia \u2014 goes on 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n

Surface mining operations began recently at the 16,000-acre Natalka mine located in Siberia, hundreds of miles from the coastal Russian city of Magadan. The gold found there is precious enough to push production nonstop around the clock, although infrastructure to support crews is almost nonexistent and the average winter temperature is negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s primitive, it\u2019s cold, it\u2019s tough,\u201d said Brian Sheridan, Modern Machinery Co. president.<\/p>\n

As the mine\u2019s main supplier of heavy equipment, Missoula-based Modern recently began shipping millions of dollars worth of giant bulldozers, excavators and 240-ton haul trucks to Natalka.<\/p>\n

Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The search for ore at the third-largest gold mine in the world \u2014 located in a subarctic, far eastern region of remote Russia \u2014 goes on 24 hours a day. Surface mining operations began recently at the 16,000-acre Natalka mine located in Siberia, hundreds of miles from the coastal Russian city of Magadan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4],"tags":[96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}