A worker casts an ingot of gold at Kolyma Refinery in the village of Khasyn, 80 km (50 miles) north of Magadan, July 19, 2009. Moscow's fragmented gold industry has struggled to access vast reserves in inhospitable parts of the Far East, a region first mined in the 1930s by prisoners of Soviet leader Josef Stalin's Gulags. Picture taken July 19, 2009. REUTERS/Robin Paxton