The village of Muzhievo is located seven kilometers from the regional center of Berehove, in Transcarpathia. Golovna Street through the village - Ferensa Rakocsi. There are two ensigns in the rural parliament: Ukrainian and Ugric.
Muzhievo is the only point on the Ukrainian map where gold reserves are confirmed.
After a troubled break, the American investor wants to renew a type of valuable metal here.
Drink wine and work in the vineyards
Two sellers in the middle of the street are chanting Ugric. The older population of Muzhiev knows Ukrainian poorly, but Russian better.
There are not so many young people in the village - perhaps everyone has gone to work for the neighboring powers. The village itself has a glimpse of what it could look like: renovated buildings, new parking lots. Beneath this ball of snow there is an old brook road.
Yosip goes to the local store. On the new one there is a light, open casing and boots. The man is clearly in no hurry. We feed you about life in the village and gold:
— What is the most important thing for people to do here?
People are a little afraid of the updated video boot Vasil Fitsay, rural head of Muzhiev
- Chim? — after an interesting pause, Yosip repeats. - Drink wine. Well, or a burner. Still working in the vineyards.
Two young lads are praying on the chain. They know about the birthplace of the family, and one of them sings: let’s work there. I want my robot’s mother to go home, or not to go beyond the border.
People in rural stores have heard little about the new investor and, it seems, their food is not enough to pay attention to. About those who worked at the mine before, it seems also reluctant.
Vasil Fitsai has been head of the Muzhiev community for 15 years. Bachiv, how the family practiced and how they liquidated him. It seems that for the sake of any investors, new jobs will appear and pennies will come to the village.
“People are a little afraid of the new video boot. Here, in the last three years, problems with drinking water arose. At the young springs, she began to burn. There is no gold associated with it; the fragments of the mine there are dry. That business didn’t solve problems for an hour,” says the village leader.
«Упері» руды
The history of gold mining in Transcarpathia is strange. Even in the Radian hours, they tracked him down and discovered mines and ground spores, having spent tens of millions of carbons.
Between 199 and 2006, the state-owned company “Zakarpatpolymetali” came into play here, but soon went bankrupt and abandoned the company.
Volodymyr Mikhailov, Doctor of Geological Sciences, Director of the Basic Scientific Institute “Institute of Geology of KNU im. Taras Shevchenko”, I respect that the Muzhiiv family was initially broken down into polymetals (lead and zinc).
This was a good thing, and this relieved the decline in gold reserves.
At other leading gold mining sites in Ukraine (Maisk, Sergievske, Klintsivske and others) such robots, and here, right before the drilling process, started only in the 90s.
But the money for exploration quickly ran out, and Muzhiivske lost the only gold family in Ukraine.
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According to Mr. Mikhailov, the Muzhievsky clan has added this species for two reasons: a significant overestimation of gold reserves and the advanced technological power of ores, which lie up to the so-called “stubborn”.
Through a whole series of significant losses during the extraction of gold and significant losses, more than half of the gold was lost from the rock.
Another situation is the repeated change of investors through a conflict of interests in the local area.
Since its founding, the sovereign company has been able to produce nearly 700 kilograms of gold (the family has over 50 tons), but before it, there was more than one conflict.
The Beregovsky District Court destroyed the low administrative and criminal proceedings related to “Zakarpatpolymetals”.
“I’m digging for gold every day”
In Janos's yard (the name has been changed to the hero's name) there is an open hole. You have cleaned up the snow from your home and from your TV now.
Until recently, we were sent by our neighbors - Janos, who worked in the ancestral homes of several decades.
It’s cold outside the cabin, and the firewood is smoldering near the stove. When asked about gold, Janos responds with emotion and enthusiasm. Having said that, you yourself will know what really happened to the video-butt.
After the closure of the company, Janos Pishov retired and now the share of the family will not be taken over.
“If they had a clear conscience, then they would have said everything. Otherwise, there’s no telling. When the company closed, there were security guards who, in fact, buried the villains. In the middle of the day, a grader appeared, and a dimar appeared from the fireplace. And without knowing anything,” it seems like a man.
Janos has no doubt that the company “Zakarpatpolymetali” was not profitable, as the rulers insisted. Information about the species was collected.
It seems that the company often changed its name, as many times as it was on the river. She remembers her last night of change until the end of 2006. Before the holiday weekend everyone realized that these were the remaining days of the company.
According to Janos, no more than 20 people from this Muzhiev were bidding for a bottle of gold. Rasht came from the Beregovsky and Irshavsky districts, the shift workers came from Kalush (250 km from Muzhiev).
“Did they tell you that there was only a few grams of gold per ton? But in reality it was so much that they extracted kilograms of gold from tons of ore in six months. I mined gold every day, rubbing it in my hands, but we were harshly punished to never tell anything about it,” says Janos.
As soon as we leave the house, the man has washed himself, just as he was caught in the collapse of the mine. Ale shvidko got rid of it and didn’t want to give out the details.
The new investor operates primarily in Ukraine and neighboring Europe
In 2012, the company was allowed to mine gold in Muzhievo by the private subsidiary “Karpatska Ore Company” (KRK). At that time, gold had not been mined here for six years.
The company was initially registered in Donetsk under the name of Valery Bredikhin. Ale was re-registered in 2014 and became a private joint-stock partnership (PRAT), without changing the name.
The same is true for the American company Avellana Gold Ltd. owned by Savage Brian Cherles, registered in the United States (under the Unified Register of Legal Entities).
On the official website of the investor it is said that the company is registered in Cyprus and is engaged in the exploration and development of genera in Ukraine and other countries of neighboring Europe.
“The company was founded after the Euromaidan by a group of international investors who developed funds in Ukraine as a call to change on the institutional level, which would lead to greater security for investors who are ready to receive capital from Ukrainian video production companies in Ukraine,” the company’s website says.
Having denied permission to see the shoes, the KRK could not issue a letter to the robot, as there was no small access to the birthplace. All terrestrial spores, as before, belonged to the company “Zakarpatpolimetal”.
KRK bought the power of the company at a sovereign auction, and then, after the change of ownership in 2014, it brought to court the scrounger that they had gotten it cheaply.
Two criminal complaints were filed against KRK. A special permit was given to the korsistuvannya and they were immediately kicked in. In 2017, the Supreme Administrative Court renewed the permit for video production.
Since 2014, while there was no work at home, and no one had to pay for the funeral, tons of metal were stolen from this territory. All the plants and some of the underground spores were collected.
The representative of Avellana Gold in Ukraine, Mikola Gozhik, said that the local bags were created.
The villagers' loyalty is due to the ruler and the leading rulers of the family.
450 tons of spare dumps
The development of the gold-bearing genus in Transcarpathia has little serious ecological heritage for the dowkill.
The dumps, which have been lying here since the 1970s, remove a large number of important metals that are lost through the planks in the underground waters. Infections of the family lie above 450 tons of dumps, which the investor can liquidate. Otherwise, it is impossible to start a video game.
The State Agency for Water Resources of the Territory informed us that the results of monitoring in 2016 show that the concentration of important metals in the waters of the Beregovsky district does not exceed background values.
Monitoring of surface waters was carried out at the nearest reservoirs near Muzhiev.
And the State Inspectorate, starting in 2013, did not look at the Muzhievsky family.
The deposits on the surface still contain the concentration of sulfides and other important metals.
Whom the State Service of Geology and Supervision of Ukraine will not block. Nowadays it is reported that “Zakarpatpolimetal” used environmentally friendly gravity technology using exceptionally clean water without reagents.
“These breeds of the trained breed can be seen in the bones of the potential body of the fertilized dowkill,” the press service of the State Geological Council reported.
Zokrema is the obstruction of ground waters, which people use for food and dominion, they said in the department.
The State Geology Service respects the fact that the processing of the dumps can be done by the one who allowed the mining of the dumps.
Income from the first day?
Office of the KRK Roztashovaniye in Beregovoe. Half of the office of Mikoli Gozsik, who also works as director here, is littered with family documentation.
On the table there is a bunch of rocks in which to place the gold.
Mikola Gozhik was at one time the chief engineer at Zakarpatpolimetalakh. Now, together with his son, who is the company’s lawyer, he is working with a new investor.
“Here there could be a serious gamble, such as providing work for 500 people for no less than twenty years, and according to our forecasts – for forty to fifty years. The state company that worked here produced less than 5% of bark copalins,” says Mr. Gozhik.
It is important that earlier in the clans there was a wrong approach through the absence of professionals.
The ore, besides the gold, has three more warehouses: silver, lead and zinc. The stinks can also ruin their price Mikola Gozhik, Director of KRK
Some of the specialists were from Krivoy Rog. They settled on a single bottle of salient ore, and instead of salvage - 370 kg per ton. The volume of gold in one ton of ore, in my words, is 5-6 grams. Therefore, the technology for the production of these copalins is significantly evolving.
According to Gozhik, the company will immediately spend 50 million dollars: on the reclamation of dumps and new equipment.
The investor hopes that it will pay off in just three days. It is planned that the product will be profitable from the first day: in addition to gold, ore has three more warehouses: silver, lead and zinc. The stinks can exact their price.
“These components are liquid, and selling them will not be a problem. By a water-mechanical method, concentrates are obtained from ores, which remove all metals. Lead concentrates are lead and zinc minerals. They will have everything silver and gold. And zinc concentrates are sold at metallurgical plants,” said the geologist.
All the gold available in Muzhievo is purchased by the National Bank of Ukraine. What is the purpose of the law “On the NBU” - all gold produced in Ukraine may be sold to the National Bank.
“There will be no cyanides”
Transcarpathian ZMI periodically write about those who find the modernization of clothing unprofitable for the local population. Get inspired by this idea, and then develop tourism in the village.
One of the reasons for the concern is the possible use of cyanide technology (salts of hydrocyanic acid). This method is extremely disadvantageous for Dovkill, but, according to the words of the director of the KRK, the technology for eliminating the stink is not vikorist.
“Cyanides are the cheapest way to obtain gold, but it is impossible to obtain it from such ore as Muzhievo’s. There are a lot of other words there, besides gold. We were inspired by this technology back in the 80s. “It didn’t give the required effect,” said Mr. Gozhik.
In 2017, the "Carpathian Ore Company" prepared the Muzhiivska family to work, and already plans to start producing gold.
Today's environmental legislation in Ukraine is even weakened, and the moratorium on inspections of enterprises casts doubt on their effectiveness Vladlena Martsinkevich, Ecologist
Vladlena Martsinkevich, an expert at the National Ecological Center of Ukraine, appreciates that the government can bear witness to such level of insecurity - and quickly respond to all potential insecurities for dowkill and population
Paying attention to the recent decline of past rocks at Muzhievo, the expert doubts the usefulness of updating the production unit, but confirms that there will be no cyanides.
“The technology of flotation and gravity is safe, low cost. But you will get less gold with this rank. In addition, the safety of the vaults is lost. Today’s environmental legislation in Ukraine is even weakened, and the moratorium on inspections of enterprises casts doubt on their effectiveness,” said Mrs. Martsinkevich.
Doctor of Geological Sciences Volodymyr Mikhailov respects that the development of other Ukrainian deposits is driven by funding for geological exploration and investment.
The main reason is that the legislation is insufficient, because investors are afraid to invest pennies in Ukrainian gold.
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