Yep, even with our reducing production, Russia has let her mining operations fall behind us.
http://www.lbma.org.uk/docs/conf2003/3d.pikhoyaLBMAConf2003.pdf
(page 2 of that doc)
I think gold mining used to be one of the major occupations in the Gulag. As Putin moves Russia back toward totalitarianism, maybe they will have cheap labor again to run those Siberian mines.