OREANDA-NEWS. March 13, 2008. OOO Severnaya Zolotorudnaya Kompaniya (Northern Gold Mining Company), a subsidiary of Russian mining and steel company Severstal, has won an auction for the geological exploration and gold extraction rights at the Kunikan field in the Chitinskaya oblast. The auction was held by the Subsurface Management Department of the Chitinskaya oblast on 13 March, 2008 in Chita.

Severnaya Zolotorudnaya Kompaniya’s winning bid was 39 m roubles from a starting price of 15 m roubles. According to Severstal Resurs estimates, the resources in this field are predicted to be 15 tons of gold.