CJSC Polyus

Polyus-Krasnoyarsk business unit (ZAO "Polyus") represents the group’s leading production site and currently is the largest gold mining project in Russia.

Core activity of Krasnoyarsk business unit is development of Olympiada deposit. The ore is processed on Olympiada processing plant, which is the first in Russia to use its in-house bio-oxidation technology. The Olimpiada mine facilities account for as much as 75% of the Group gold output.

Besides mining and processing divisions Krasnoyarsk business unit also includes geological exploration unit. The unit conducts exploration works to estimate reserves of Blagodatnoye, Titimukhta, Olenii and Kvartsevaya Gora deposits, as well as Panimba ore cluster, Zyryanovskaya and Razdolinskaya fields.

In 2004 a Research center with 6 laboratories was set up in Krasnoyarsk to provide R&D support for all Polyus operations.