In January-September Almalyk Iron and Steel Works manufactured $1.4 billion worth of metal products, up by 131.5% YoY. Cathode copper manufacture grew by 127.2%, metallic zinc – by 122.5%, gold – by 106.5% and silver – by 164.9%. This year the copper-smelting plant set a new record – 100 thousand tons of cathode copper were…
Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex intends to mine up to 74 million tons of copper ore per year at the Yoshlik I deposit. The development of the deposit, situated next to the Kalmakir deposit, started in 2017. Art present the company employs 1330 people and 54 quarry dump trucks there. The first copper ore will…
Under the project to develop the Yoshlik I deposit Almalyk Mining and Processing Works has assembled an EKG-15 M excavator and is assembling two more. So far the company has bought 15 excavators, including 13 EKG-15M and 2 EKG-10. The three excavators were received in August. The first was assembled in just 35 days as…
Almalyk Iron and Steel Works has started carrying out the second stage of the railroad infrastructure construction to the Kalmakyr mine. Kalmakyr Mine is the largest mining enterprise in the CIS, the base of Uzbek non-ferrous metallurgy. In 2016 the mine design capacity was increased to 30 million tons of ore per year. Under the…
The Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC) has received the honorary “CIS Business Leader” award in 2018 at the International Economic Forum “CIS: Digital Economy – Integration Platform”. The event was organized by the CIS Economic Development Business Center with the support of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States. More than 1500…
Korea Institute for Rare Metals (KIRAM) and Almalyk Mining and Processing Works will create a joint scientific center on rare metals and alloys. The corresponding agreement has already been signed. The center will comprise 5 laboratories to obtain refractory metals, in particular, tungsten and molybdenum, as well as alloys using nano- and chemical-metallurgical techniques. (Ukrainian…
The Ministry of Finance and the State Committee of Uzbekistan on Privatization, Demonopolization and Development of Competition left the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine with full net profit for 2017. Last year the combine earned 124 billion soums of net profit. Of this money, 88.2% (state share) – 109.4 billion soums – were decided to…
In March Almalyk Iron and Steel Works started construction of the roasting furnace No. 4 in the rare metals shop of the copper smelting works. The shop operates 3 furnaces with the capacity of 1800 tons of molybdenum product per year. Another furnace will increase molybdenum product processing by 30% per year. (Ukrainian metal)