Officials of a Kyrgyz environmental protection agency has averted the shutdown of Canadian miner Centerra Gold’s Kumtor mine on July 1, by approving the operation’s mine plan for the remainder of 2016, the company reported Monday.
The Kyrgyz Republic State Agency for Environmental Protection and Forestry (SAEPF) had provided TSX-listed Centerra with all the necessary approvals of Kumtor’s 2016 annual mine plan to proceed uninterrupted.
