Ukraine: Lvivugol accounts unblocked

The State Executing Service has unblocked all Lvivugol accounts. The Lviv region miners will receive their salaries, the regional governor Oleg Sinyutka reported. The miners announced they would go on a strike on March 9, because of the salary debts. The issue was discussed with the regional authorities. According to Lvivugol, on March 6, it…

Russia: Status to mine 1.3 tons of gold in 2017

The government of the Magadan region and Status LLC have signed an agreement on the operation at the gold-bearing deposits on the territory of Yagodnoye town district. In 2015-2016 the company invested 470 million rubles in the development of the manufacturing capacities and paid 390 million rubles of taxes. The company also mined 2.6 tons…

Russia: Bashmed gets new railroad scales

The loading site of Bashkirskaya Med in Sibay has received the new railroad scales. The cost of the machinery is 1.7 million rubles. “Now our controllers weigh all the wagons. They work day and night. All the weighing operations are automatically saved in the database. Now that we weigh everything ourselves and not with the…

Russia: RMK and MMK to increase environment protection investments

According to Russian Copper Company environment, labor safety and industrial safety department director Natalia Gonchar, in 2017 the company intends to invest 1.6 billion rubles into environment protection (1.3 billion invested in 2016). The money will be spent on the protection of air, water, soil, and waste treatment. Moreover, Karabashmed, a part of RMK, environment…