Gold mining and production output in 2006 in Russia decreased by 2.2% in comparison with this in 2005 and became equal to 164.3 tonnes. The gold output decreased by 2.9% (to 147.6 tonnes), and the accompanying and secondary gold production volume increased by 4.4% (to 16.701 tonnes).
The essential part of the gold output (98.9%) was provided by 14 leading gold-mining regions with their annual output of more than 1 tonne.

The Kamchatka Region (including the Koryak Autonomous District) joined this group of regions in 2006 (table 1 below).

The gold output increased in the Krasnoyarsk territory, Sakha Republic, which took the second place for the first time in Russia and the Sverdlovsk Region.

At the same time, the gold output was reduced in most regions particularly in the Magadan Region, Khabarovsk Territory and other constituents of the Russian Federation (table 2 below).

Russia Gold Output

The gold output was reduced mostly because of the decline in placer gold production and actual capacities withdrawal at the companies developing primary gold deposits.

In 2006, Russia kept the sixth place in the world rating of main gold producers (table 3).

One of the leading gold-mining Russian companies is still the Polyus Zoloto JSC and Polimetall JSC. The Rudnik Aprelkovo, Kamgold JSC, Seligdar mining partnership, Vasilyevsky and Pokrovsky rudniks and other companies essentially increased the gold output (table 4).