PJSC PIMCU im. E.P. Slavsky "increases the volume of mine workings at the operating mines
The Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Association (PJSC PIMCU named after E.P. Slavsky, part of the management loop of ARMZ Uranium Holding /Mining Division of ROSATOM) is increasing the volume of mine workings at operating mines. at the underground uranium mines No. 1 and No. 8, nine treatment units were commissioned. In the coming year, it is planned to commission seven more treatment blocks. Three new treatment blocks at mine No. 1 and four at mine No. 8 will increase the prepared reserves by almost 2 thousand tons of uranium. “Thus, we will be able to continue the extraction of strategic metal at the existing mines until 2035. Further development of PIMCU and Krasnokamensk is associated with the development of the Argunskoye and Zherlovoy deposits of the Streltsovskoye ore field, the construction of a new mine No. 6, ”said Ivan Kiselev, General Director of PIMCU. Recall that the design capacity of mine No. 6 is 850 thousand tons of ore per year. Construction work began in 2018 and is progressing according to schedule.