Russian gold-miner Polymetal has completed the acquisition of a 98,1% stake in Omolon Gold Mining Company , which owns the Kubaka mine, from Canada's Kinross Gold, the company said on Friday.
Kubaka, in Russia's Magadan Region, produced 90,8 t of gold between 1997 and 2005, when it was put on care and maintenance.
Polymetal agreed to pay a subsidiary of Kinross $15-million plus a royalty for the mine.
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The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation approved the transaction last month, Polymetal said in an RNS announcement.
The company plans to reopen the mine in 2011, at a production rate of between 150 000 oz/y and 250 000 oz/y.
In order to meet this target, it will identify targets for detailed exploration this year, produce resource estimates on one or two of the targets in 2009 and aims to complete a feasibility study the following year.
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