Centerra Gold reported that the Kumtor operation,
located in the Kyrgyz Republic, has
received the necessary permits from the
state authorities to raise the tailings dam
to the 3,674-meter (m) elevation. The construction
permits enable the mine to commence
the 3-year construction program to
provide adequate tailings storage capacity
for Kumtor’s mill tailings deposition from
2021 through the end of 2024. The tailings
dam construction in 2017 is the first
such construction required to contain the
additional 3.6 million oz of gold reserves
that resulted from the KS-13 pit expansion.
The tailings dam approval process at
Kumtor requires the mine to permit each
of the 3-m tailings dam raises. After the
initial raise is completed in 2020, the
mine would then submit a design to raise
the dam to the final elevation of 3,677.5
starting in 2021.
As featured in Womp 2017 Vol 04 - www.womp-int.com