Illegal gold mining in the Abay area has been stopped.
In the Jarma region, 10 km from the village of Zhangiztova, gold ore was mined without permission. A 15-meter-deep quarry was discovered there.
According to AFM data, the volume of the illegally extracted rock mass exceeded 12 thousand cubic meters, and the area of the damaged land exceeded 4 thousand square meters.
Nine involved were identified. Equipment for mining and ore processing, seven bags of material containing gold and special equipment were seized.