The government of Kyrgyzstan proposes to regulate the export of gold ore through taxes, Vice Prime Minister Oleg Pankratov said at a meeting of the parliamentary committee on the fuel, energy complex and subsoil use on April 18. The deputies suggested voicing the government’s position, as they were currently drafting a bill. Therefore, it is…
The State Fiscal Service has presented the list of the largest taxpayers in 2016. In two fields – metal and finances – the leaders hail from Dniepropetrovsk region. In metal industry the largest taxpayer was ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih with 2389.4 million UAH, in banking – PrivatBank with 4094 million UAH of taxes. The 100 largest…
In January-March Kazakhstan mined 5.3 thousand tons of uranium. “This is down by 13% YoY, and is 24% of the annual target”, the energy minister Kanat Bozumbayev declared. In January Kazatomprom announced the decrease in 2017 uranium output by 10%. “The decrease will exceed 2 thousand tons of uranium of the planned target for 2017.…
In January-March Krasnoyarskkraiugol mined over 2 million tons of coal, up by 20% from the target and by 287 thousand tons YoY. Pereyaslovsky and Sayano-Partizansky open-pits showed the highest growth, with the latter increasing output 1.5-fold in 2 years. In 2016 it mined 700 thousand tons of coal. At present the open-pit is preparing the…
Severstal Balakovo, a part of Severstal Russian Steel, has started producing hot-rolled wire (wire rod) with 6.5 mm diameter. The quality has been confirmed by the laboratory tests and corresponds to GOST 2590 and TU 14-1-5283-94. The shop can produce some 65 tons of wire rods per hour. The wire rods are used in the…
In January-March MMK produced 3.066 million tons of steel, up by 1.4% YoY. According to the company statement, the total loading of capacities at the main site in Magnitogorsk exceeded 94%. Product sales dropped by 2.3% YoY, to 2.723 million tons. High added value products manufacture increased by 5.1%, to 1.313 million tons. The share…
Since the beginning of 2017 the Raspadskaya miners have yielded 1 million tons of coal, up by 19% YoY. “Since the end of 2016 the miners have been keeping pace of work. To effectively mine coal this year the company carries out a massive modernization of mining equipment”, the Raspadskaya Coal Company CEO Sergey Stepanov…
The head of the Russian Federal Agency on state reserves Dmitry Gogin confirmed that Russia was supporting Donbass enterprises. Earlier the head of the Russian commission “on humanitarian aid” to the territories of the south-eastern districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine Sergey Nazarov declared, that “companies, affected by the economical and transport blockade,…