Kyrgyzstan offers to legalize artisanal gold mining

Almaty. August 7. Silkroadnews - Kyrgyzstan offer to legalize artisanal gold mining, reports KyrTAG with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Economic Affairs on Thursday.
The draft resolution is expected to approve regulations governing the activities of prospectors and mining of gold, washing without significantly compromising the integrity of the bowels. Work must be applied exclusively by gravitational methods of extracting gold from sand. Categorically will not be allowed to use the technology to extract gold using highly toxic substances, acids, mercury.
To engage such activities enterpreneures need to purchase an annual patent as an individual entrepreneur.
In addition, one of the proposed innovation is that the individual artisanal method can be developed in subsoil with gold mineralization outside the State cadastre of deposits and minerals of the KR.
Recall illegal gold miners work mostly in Chotkalskiy district of Jalalabad region where exist many gold deposits, and in Naryn. As reported earlier, the original price of the patent will be 3 thousand som, but over the time the cost will increase.
$ 1 = 51,62S