Koza Altin, GreenOre to expand drilling for gold in Scotland
TANBUL – Koza, whose founder had to abandon his Turkish gold assets, is expanding his operations in Britain with a $1-million programme to drill for gold in Ayrshire, Scotland, together with a venture partner, the company said on Thursday.
Founder Akin Ipek built a multi-billion-dollar fortune in Turkey based on gold mining, but left the country in 2015 after relations between the government and followers of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen soured.
He has since been seeking to develop assets in the United Kingdom and in February Koza, a British subsidiary of Turkish miner Koza Altin, announced a joint venture with Australia’s Walkabout Resources to explore for gold and other metals at Slieve Gallon in Northern Ireland.
With a separate venture partner, GreenOre Gold, Koza said it would carry out 4 000 m of drilling for gold in Ayrshire.
Koza and GreenOre entered into a joint venture agreement in 2017 on GreenOre's wholly owned Ayrshire project, in southwest Scotland, and began drilling in the same year.
The plan now is to work on establishing the extent of the reserve after the 2017 drilling intersected "significant gold grades", Koza Ltd said.
The Istanbul-listed parent of Koza is in a legal battle to eject Ipek and get the subsidiary's assets, drained by protracted litigation, back under its control.
Koza Altin is one of hundreds of companies seized by the Turkish authorities and is now managed by the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund. It was placed in receivership in October 2015 for alleged links to Gulen.
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