18:08, 20 мая 2025, Bishkek - 24-kg.com news agency , Aizada KUTUEVA
According to the results of monitoring of companies mining placer gold in the Kyrgyz Republic, environmental damage amounted to 1,039 billion soms. The First Deputy Minister of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision Kubat Kaseinov announced at a meeting of the Committee on Fuel and Energy Complex, Subsoil Use and Industrial Policy of the Parliament.
According to him, 163,400 million soms have been recovered to date.
The Deputy Minister noted that at present, the authorized body has issued 96 licenses, of which 29 were issued for exploration and 67 for excavation. Of these, the largest number of licenses (45) were issued to companies for placer gold mining in Chatkal district of Jalal-Abad region. At the same time, only 5 out of 45 companies actually work.
A number of deputies noted that the work of only 5 out of 45 companies is a very low figure. «We need to find out why the rest are not working? We need to provide licenses to those companies that will actually work, and not just hold licenses,» they added.
The Ministry of Natural Resources, Ecology and Technical Supervision noted that if the companies do not work by the expiration date of the license, their license will be cancelled.