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NBLgold group has been operating for more than 15 years, providing consultancy services, research studies, and engineering design work, in the field of minerals extraction and processing.

NBLgold is a family of engineering companies with one UK-based and three Russia- based companies with totally about 100 employees, including geologists, geotechnical, mining and mineral processing engineers, as well as engineers of other related disciplines, environmental scientists, mineral economists and mineral commodity market analysts, with over 15 years of continuous experience in Russian and international engineering studies. Work is carried out to the highest standards. Our staff includes members of the Expert Council of GKZ (the Russian State Commission on Mineral Reserves); many also have international professional accreditation.

NBLgold provides a broad range of mining engineering, geotechnical, geological and corporate consulting services to exploration and mining companies and to financial services institutions, working globally, but specifically focusing on countries of the former Soviet Union.

Today, NBLgold undertakes work for a range of Russian and international clients, on gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, base metals, radioactive elements, ferrous metals and other minerals, in Russia, other FSU republics and Mongolia, as well as other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. From 1995 NBLgold has collaborated closely with established international consulting and engineering groups, in order achieve synergies of scale and technology in such projects.

NBLgold has always been privately owned by its own employees. This means that it is completely independent, and avoids potential conflicts of interest.

The scope of work includes ore resources and reserves modelling, estimation and valuation, engineering studies at all levels (scoping, pre-feasibility,  feasibility, and detailed design), due diligence project reviews and technical audits, valuation of companies and projects, technical desk study research, and advice to management.  Extensive databases of mining costs, performances and productivities are maintained as a basis for engineering, benchmarking, due diligence and feasibility studies.  NBL has a special focus on resource modelling and cut-off estimation (so-called "TEO conditions") in the form required by Russian and other FSU regulations, for relevant national and regional approvals and permitting processes.

NBLgold has all the appropriate licences from the Russian Ministry of Construction and from the Russian Federal Mining and Industrial Inspection Authority to design mines, processing and metallurgical plants and tailings dumps in Russia, other FSU States and abroad. In addition, NBLgold has collaboration agreements with a number of international consulting and engineering groups, design and research institutions, and large financial companies.

Below is a list of just some of the current operations constructed with the participation of specialists currently working for NBLgold:

• Muruntau (gold, Uzbekistan)
• Mirny (diamonds, Yakutia),
• Makmal & Dzherui (gold-silver, Kyrgyzstan),
• Olympiada (gold-silver, Krasnojarsk region, Russia),
• Kastelianos (gold - base metals, Cuba),
• Nge-Tin (tin, gold, Vietnam),
• Kalana (gold, Mali),
• Mnogovershinny (gold-silver, Khabarovsk region, Russia),
• Pokrovskiy Mine (Amur region, Russia),
• Prioksky Refinery (Rjazan' region, Russia),
• Kolymsky Refinery (Magadan region, Russia).

Principal regions of activity of NBL