In mid-July Ukraine will be visited by Zhao Yang Feng bulker with 75 thousand tons of South African anthracite. According to DTEK, the ship left Richard’s Bay on June 17. On May 25 port Yuzhniy received a Panamax-class vessel with 75 thousand tons of anthracite from SAR for DTEK Energo thermal power plants. (Ukrainian metal)
The Chelyabinsk regional environment supervision service has cancelled the license for polluting the air, given to Mechel-Coke in March 2016. The license has been cancelled because of the company regularly exceeding the pollution quota. Mechel-Coke provides some 46% of industrial pollution in the city of Chelyabinsk, or 100 thousand tons. In the past 12 months…
In January-May Amur Zoloto processed 37465 tons of ore, yielding 456.6 kg of gold and 342 kg of silver at its Yubileyny GOK. Perevalny GOK continues constructing the processing factory. Alluvial gold sites Buor and Ulakhan washed 125.3 thousand cubic meters of sand. The total gold yield in 5 months is 461.2 kg. (Ukrainian metal)
Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works has shipped a trial batch of S460M plate according to EN 10025-4:2004 to French customers. “The size of the new type of rolled metal is 12:30 mm”, the company CEO Yuri Zinchenko noted. The main condition of the order was the specified number of plates. (Ukrainian metal)
KazZinc has lobbied the retaining of the 0% duty on the imports of lead ores and concentrates with 45% metal contents to the Eurasian Economic Union till May 2019. KazZinc is the sole producer and consumer of raw lead in Kazakhstan. Last year it produced 133.5 thousand tons of lead. In 2016 EEU imports of…
Ukraine has gone up to the 13th position in the Worldsteel 67 countries rating. China is traditionally the first with 72.259 million tons of steel in May, up by 1.8%. Steel output in Russia dropped by 1.5%, to 5.953 million tons. In May Ukraine produced 1.6889 million tons of steel, down by 25.5% YoY. (Ukrainian…
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) has worsened its 2017 domestic demand growth forecast to 1-1.5% from 2.5%, CEO Oleg Bagrin reported on June 21 on the sidelines of the Russia Calling business forum. “We expect demand for steel to grow by 1-1.5% in 2017. We adhere to this forecast and so far we have seen…
Three workers – all of them citizens of China – were killed in an accident at Taldybulak Levoberezhniy mine, the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union of Kyrgyzstan Eldar Tadzhibaev reported. According to him, the first accident occurred on June 14. Driver was killed by a collapse of the…