Tengiz Bolturuk took charge of Kyrgyzstan's Kumtor Gold mine after authorities seized it from Canadian company Centerra Gold.
Kumtor Gold Company provides jobs for over 3000 people. 99 percent of the Company full-time employees are Kyrgyz citizens, and this proportion is ever growing as the result of foreign managerial personnel being gradually replaced by national employees.
Kumtor, one of the largest western-operated gold mines in Central Asia, sits 3,600 to 4,000 metres above sea level in the mountains that tower above Issyk-Kul Lake. To access the gold ore...
In the words of one expert, Kumtor is the largest mining operation in the world that interferes with glaciers. Kyrgyzstan's new government, which came to power in the chaos that followed last ...
The Kumtor open pit mine is the largest gold mine in Kyrgyz Republic. Kumtor Gold Company is the operator of the Kumtor project responsible for the entire production cycle. Kumtor Values. History.
Kumtor Gold Company provides jobs for over 3000 people. 99 percent of the Company full-time employees are Kyrgyz citizens, and this proportion is ever growing as the result of foreign managerial personnel being gradually replaced by national employees.
Kyrgyzstan will take full control of the Kumtor gold mine (KGC), its biggest industrial enterprise, under an out-of-court settlement with Canada-based Centerra Gold after a series of legal...
Upon closing of the agreement, Centerra would extinguish the inter-company balance between Centerra and the Kumtor Gold Company with a US$50 million payment.
The Kumtor gold mine is located in the Tien Shan Mountains in the Kyrgyz Republic, about 350km south-east of the capital Bishkek and about 60km north of the international boundary with China. The mine is owned by Centerra Gold through its wholly owned subsidiary Kumtor Gold Company.
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