Russia says its gold output rose to 314 tonnes in 2018

Russia’s Finance Ministry said on Wednesday that Russia had produced 314.42 tonnes of gold and 1,119.95 tonnes of silver in 2018.

In the previous year, Russia’s gold output was 306.9 tonnes and the country’s silver output 1,044.3 tonnes.

(By Darya Korsunskaya and Maria Tsvetkova; Editing by Alexander Smith)