https://www.engineeringnews.co.za

Centerra gets new Kumtor emissions and discharge permits

23rd June 2016

By: Henry Lazenby

Creamer Media Deputy Editor: North America

  

Font size: - +

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – TSX-listed Centerra Gold has received its 2016 maximum allowable emissions (MAE) permit from the Kyrgyz Republic State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry (SAEPF) for the Kumtor mine, in Kyrgyzstan.

Centerra stated that the new MAE permit was valid until December 31, and was the first new MAE permit issued by SAEPF to Kumtor since 2014. Before this, the operation relied on periodic extensions of its 2014 MAE permit from SAEPF for continuous operations.

The Kumtor operation had also received approval from SAEPF for its 2016 maximum allowable discharge (MAD) permit, which allowed for discharge of treated effluent.

The SAEPF was the same agency pursuing legal action against Centerra, alleging that subsidiary Kumtor Operating Company owed additional environmental pollution fees, with claimed damages of about $220-million.

Centerra advised that, with the MAE and MAD permits in hand, the environmental approval of Kumtor’s 2016 mine plan was expected to be come through before June 30. The company had previously cautioned that, should it not receive approval of the mine plan, Kumtor would have to shut down on July 1.

Edited by Samantha Herbst
Creamer Media Deputy Editor

Comments

Showroom

Rio-Carb
Rio-Carb

Our Easy Access Chute concept was developed to reduce the risks related to liner maintenance. Currently, replacing wear liners require that...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Yale Lifting Solutions
Yale Lifting Solutions

Yale Lifting Solutions is a leading supplier of lifting and material handling equipment in Southern Africa. Yale offers a wide range of quality...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Magazine round up | 19 April 2024
Magazine round up | 19 April 2024
19th April 2024

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







sq:0.078 0.139s - 156pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now