In early October 2020, a Komatsu Mining P&H 2300XPC electric rope shovel was delivered to Pavlik GOK, the major Russian gold mine in the Tenkinsky District of the Far East Magadan region. The excavator will be used for stripping operations. It took less than two months to assemble and prepare the excavator for work by December 2020.

Pavlik GOK says this model was chosen as one of the most reliable and high-performance available. The total weight of the machine is 775 t with a daily productivity of 9,486 cubic metres. The shovel is capable of loading more than 6 million cubic metres of rock mass per year and has a bucket volume of 25 m3. It is loading a new fleet of 191 t class Caterpillar 789D dump trucks at the mine.

Pavlik GOK is upgrading its fleet to larger equipment sizes as it plans a twofold increase in ore processing capacity and production of at least 12 t of gold per year. As part of the commissioning of this second stage of the mining enterprise, it is planned to increase the capacity of the open pit and gold processing plant, as well as build a new substation.

The construction of the Pavlik mining and processing plant began in 2012. At the end of 2014, open pit mining began. In August 2015, the first stage of the enterprise was officially launched. Commissioning works were completed in January 2016. At the beginning of 2017, the plant reached its design annual capacity for processing 5 Mt/y of ore for production of 6.5 t/y of gold. In 2019, 6.7 t of gold were produced.