DTEK has started supplying Pridneprovskaya and Krivorozhskaya thermal power plants with coal from its mines in Rostov region (Russia). “Before the first coal from the South African Republic arrives in June, DTEK decided to direct some coal from Obukhovskoye mine group in Russia”, the company informed. The enterprise is a part of DTEK and at…
So far the gold washers of Kolyma have yielded 1.7 tons more gold then last year. The plan for the year is 30.5 tons. In 2016 Kolyma miners produced 27.9 tons of gold and 889.2 tons of silver, with 15.9 tons of alluvial metal, an absolute record for Russia. Susumanzoloto yielded 4.5 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2015-2016 MGTS earned 1.36 billion rubles each year from sales of old copper cable. The company does not disclose the volume of sales, but taking into account procurement prices in Moscow, it could have been 4500 tons in 2016. MGTS not only sells old cable, but also buys new one. In April it announced…
The rail-beam shop of Evraz ZSMK has initiated a project to start producing new lengths of rails and increase R65 100-meter rails output. Investments will total 168 million rubles. The shop will see the construction of the second rail line, after which ZSMK will be able to produce European rails 60E1 and 54E1 with the…
On May 8 there was a cave-in of a concrete construction on the territory of ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. The cave-in size was 500 square meters. An hour after the cave-in the rescuers were able to retrieve a body. During the accident there were 4 people in the building, three of them were able to escape…
Russian authorities have started denying coalminers new licenses because of the accident and safety risks. MMK and PMH are operating at the Nikitinskiy Verkhniy site in Kuzbass – the former has some 130 million tons of deposits, while the latter intends to start mining at the site with 200 million tons. But the Ministry of…
In January-April Russian seaports throughput of ferrous metals dropped by 0.4% YoY, to 9.68 million tons, with exports at 9.46 million tons, down by 2.1%, and imports at 220.53 thousand tons, up 3.7-fold. Railroad exports to port Novorossiysk totaled 3.58 million tons, down by 8.3% YoY, St. Petersburg – 2.1 million tons, up by 24.7%,…
In January-April Ukraine exported $947.4 million worth of iron ore raw materials, up by 85% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, exports reached 12.019 million tons, down by 15.8% YoY, with the share in the total exports revenue at 6.9%. The main buyers of Ukrainian iron ore raw materials were China (30%), Poland (10.6%)…
