The founder of VETEK Sergey Kurchenko started exporting coal of Ukrainian origin. According to sources, anthracite is mostly sold to Turkey. The first sales commenced in April, and became systematic in May-June: some 5-6 vessels carrying 20 thousand tons of coal unload in Turkey each month. Coal, mined on the occupied territories of Donetsk and…
A single service for geological exploration of uranium, precious and non-ferrous metals will be created in Uzbekistan under the State Geology and Mineral Resources Committee, according to the decree of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The decree published on June 16 reads that the Scientific and Production Center “Geology of Precious Metals and Uranium” of the…
The salary of Evraz DMZ and Evraz Yuzhkoks employees has gone up by 15% since June. According to Evraz statement, since the beginning of the year the increase has been 18.3%. The average wages at Evraz Ukrainian companies is now 8829 UAH. The group also intends to spend 63 million UAH to improve labor conditions.…
In May metal companies received 700 thousand tons of coke, up by 80 thousand tons MoM, with 3.5 million tons of local coke supplied in January-May, down by 26% YoY. Imports saw 75 thousand tons (as in April), and 355 thousand tons in 5 months, down by 8% YoY. Taking imports into account, metal companies…
In May by-product coke plants received 320 thousand tons of local coal, up by 100 thousand tons MoM, with 1.6 million tons (down by 38% YoY) delivered in 5 months. Imports in May increased by 10 thousand tons MoM, to 790 thousand tons, but dropped by 17% YoY, to 4.3 million tons, in January-May. Thus…
In May metal companies received 2 million tons of local iron ore raw materials, up by 160 thousand tons MoM. In January-May the deliveries dropped by 12% YoY, to 10.3 million tons. May, as well as April, saw now imports of iron ore raw materials. In 5 months imports reached 90 thousand tons, down by…
In January-April Russian raw nickel exports totaled 48 thousand tons valued at $462 million. According to the customs statistics, this is down by 30.7% and by 20.8% YoY respectively, and the lowest indexes for the last 10 years. (Ukrainian metal)
Polymetal has received 3 licenses in the Primorye region with the combined reserves of 1 thousand tons of silver and 2 tons of gold. Previously the license-holder for the sites was Primorye Mining Company Vostok. The Kumirny site is the most interesting to the company, as its estimated reserves as of 2010 were 440 tons…