Russia’s state owned FAI Glavgosexpertiza recently positively reviewed project documentation and engineering survey results for the mining and transport part of the production infrastructure for the development of Russian Copper Company’s planned Tarutinsky copper open pit mine. Glavgosexpertiza is a non-profit organisation established for executing works and rendering services to exercise the powers of the Ministry of Construction of Russia in the sphere of state expert appraisal of design documentation and engineering survey results.
The Tarutinsky deposit is located in the Chesmensky district of the Chelyabinsk region, with its eastern border running along the state border with Kazakhstan. The total licensed area is currently 1.81 km2. In August 2021, the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Alexander Kozlov and the Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan Magzum Mirzagaliev signed an intergovernmental agreement on the specifics of carrying out economic activities in the border area in Tarutinsky (Russian Federation) and East Tarutinsky (Republic of Kazakhstan). The signing took place as part of a working trip by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to Kazakhstan. The project investor is Russian Copper Company (RCC).
Tarutinskoye mine is planned to be developed within 9.5 years. The mined ore will be delivered by road to the processing plant of Jexisting mine JSC Mikheevsky GOK in the Varnensky district of the Chelyabinsk region, part of the RCC, for processing. The project documentation that received a positive opinion from Glavgosexpertiza, provides for the construction of production and transport infrastructure facilities for the development of the Tarutinsky mine by open pit mining. The design production capacity of the open-pit mine is 750,000 t of ore per year.