In December 2020, Ukraine increased steel output by 22.1% YoY, to 1.91 million tons, going up from the 13th to the 12th position in the Worldsteel rating. In 2020, Ukraine occupied the 11th place. In December 2020, 64 countries produced 160.86 million tons of steel, up by 5.8%. In 2020, Ukraine produced 20.62 million tons,…
DetailsIn 2020, Kamchatka Autonomous District increased gold output by 9% YoY, to 6863 kg. 6 enterprises mined gold last year. In particular, the Trevozhnoye Zarevo, developing the Asachinskoye deposit, increased output by 8%, to 1402 kg, and Kamchatskoye Zoloto produced 1049 kg, up by 68%. The output of SiGMA at the Ozernovskoye deposit amounted to…
DetailsUkraine now has 7 gold ore deposits, 5 of which have special allowances. “The Muzhiyevskoye deposit is already yielding gold”, the State Service of Geology and Subsoil chairman Roman Opimakh has declared. Last year, 8 electronic auctions were announced with 70 lots. 58 special allowances were sold for over 826 million UAH. This year, over…
DetailsThe drainage system of the Ingulets Mining and Processing Works quarry has been modernized. In order to maintain the drainage capacities, tubes were relocated. Investments in the project exceeded 14 million UAH. Two branches of tubes of 975 meters each have been laid. One of the branches has been commissioned, The modernization of the system…
DetailsIn 2020, Priisk Solovievskiy increased gold output by 7.5% YoY, to 3748.5 kg. Alluvial deposits in Amur region accounted for the most gold – 2390.2 kg, up by 15%. Solovievskiy mine yielded 1039.7 kg of gold, on par with 2019. The washing season in Zabaikalye region ended with the result of 318.6 kg of gold,…
DetailsMauro Longobardo, CEO of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, held a working meeting with Roman Opimakh, the Chairman of the State Service for Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine. During the meeting, they discussed cooperation between the regulator and the company last year, plans in the mining industry for 2021, as well as further initiatives of Services aimed…
DetailsAzovstal Iron and Steel Works has invested over 50 million UAH in the Primetals system to control metal level in the continuous casting machines crystallizers. “We constantly modernize the technological processes control and automation systems, which allows receiving high-quality products according to the customers’ requirements”, the company CEO Enver Tskitishvili said. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn 2020, Kazakhmys Corporation extracted 29.356 million tons of ore, up by 0.76% from the target (30.969 million tons in 2019). Average copper content was 1.0% with the target of 0.94%. Factories processed 31.3 million tons of ore. Last year, Kazakhmys enterprises produced 258.36 thousand tons of cathode copper, up by 5.06% YoY and by…
DetailsThe state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works has concluded an agreement with Ukr Gas Resource LLC for the delivery of natural gas valued at 27.06 million UAH. The price of 1 thousand cubic meters of gas with VAT and transportation is 6745 UAH. Gas must be delivered in January-March. The price of the contract…
DetailsIn 2020, Dneprospetsstal produced 154 thousand tons of rolled metal, up by 1.3% YoY. Steel manufacture grew by 2.7%, to 255 thousand tons. In December 2020, DSS produced 20 thousand tons of steel and 14 thousand tons of rolled metal. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn 2020, Ukraine decreased pipe manufacture by 16.3% YoY, to 854 thousand tons. The Ukrtruboprom Association enterprises produced 538 thousand tons of pipes, down by 24.8%. In December 2020, Ukraine produced 71 thousand tons of pipes, including 44 thousand tons by Ukrtruboprom. Interpipe decreased output in 2020: Interpipe NTZ – by 33.7%, to 145 thousand…
DetailsIn 2020, ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih decreased rolled metal output by 7.6% YoY, to 4.3 million tons. Steel manufacture dropped by 12.1%, to 4.7 million tons, and pig iron – by 6.9%, to 4.9 million tons. The company also produced 9 million tons of sinter, down by 7.9%, 2.6 million tons of coke, down by 5.3%,…
DetailsIn 2020, Interpipe increased the share of exports to 81%. Sales last year amounted to 662.4 thousand tons. Pipe sales dropped by 21%, to 469.9 thousand tons as a result of a decrease in the sales of pipes for oil and gas extraction due to the fall of hydrocarbon prices. Deliveries to the Ukrainian market…
DetailsIn 2020, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) extracted 39 tons of gold, up from 36.5 tons in 2019. This was the record-high result for Yakutia and the third largest in Russia. The Taborniy and Gross mines of Nordgold yielded the most gold – 355.3 thousand ounces (11.05 tons). Polyus Aldan extracted 7.5 tons of gold…
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