AK Altynalmas starts open-pit mining at Aksu deposit

20.11.20 11:33
/KASE, November 20, 2020/ – AK Alatynalmas (Almaty), whose shares are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with the following press release of November 19, 2020: quote JSC "AK Altynalmas" has started open pit mining at the Aksu deposit. Aksu ore field is located in Akmola region. The deposit consists of six ore areas: Zapadnyi, Tsentralnyi, Staratelskyi, Oktyabrskyi I, Oktyabrskyi II and Budennovskyi. By the efforts of JSC "AK Altynalmas", open pit mining started at Oktyabrskaya II area of the Aksu deposit. The open pit design capacity is 5,000 thous. tons of ore and 36,040 thous. tons of rock mass per year. It is expected that by the end of 2020 ore production will be 260 thous. tons, and already in 2021 it is planned to reach the planned production capacity of 5,000 thous. tons of ore per year. Mineral resources will be processed at its own gold recovery plant, the completion of which is scheduled for the 2nd quarter of 2021. unquote The press release Kazakh, Russian and English is available on – https://kase.kz/files/emitters/ALMS/alms_reliz_191120_1.pdf [2020-11-20]