Ukraine: Metinvest starts employing people from uncontrolled territories

An employment center for Metinvest workers from the companies on the occupied territories has started operating in Mariupol. According to Azovstal CEO Enver Tskitishvili, the Metinvest staff is a single body, despite territorial spread. Azovstal has already employed the first workers from the Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works. Other Metinvest enterprises do the same. On…

Russia: Druza mines 135 kg of gold in 2017

From the start of the year and as of March 17, the gold-mining company Druza has mined 135 kg of gold at its Nevskoye deposits. “At present we continue mining ore gold at the Nevskoye deposits. Operations at the Bolshoy Dogaldyn have already been started”, the company chief geologist Konstantin Morgun said. In 2017 Druza…

Ukraine: metal trade with occupied Donbass in 2016

In 2016 Ukraine imported 1.35 million tons (31.55 thousand wagons) of coke from the uncontrolled territories, and supplied 193.6 thousand tons of coke (4.52 thousand wagons) there. According to the Ukrzaliznytsia report, iron and manganese ore imports from uncontrolled territories totaled 28.72 thousand tons (430 wagons), exports – 5.27 million tons (76.54 thousand wagons). Ferrous…

Russia: MMK and AvtoVAZ developing cooperation

A delegation from AvtoVAZ headed by its president Nicolas Maure has paid a visit to Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The guests visited the oxygen-converter shop of MMK, as well as the sheet-rolling shop No. 11, which now has the newest cold-rolling mill, intended for high-quality automobile sheet production in particular. The sheet is used…