In January-March Belarus Iron and Steel Works sold over 350 thousand tons of metal, up from 296 thousand tons in Q1 2016. Europe is the BMZ main sales market with 62.3%. Sales to Russia increased to 33.1%. The five largest importers of BMZ products are Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Lithuania. (Ukrainian metal)
Mariupol metallurgists are prepared to increase output, but the current railroad tariffs and logistics problems hamper manufacture. In particular, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works converter shop produces over 3.5 million tons of steel per year. Next year the company will construct a new continuous cast machine. But high railroad transportation tariffs don’t allow Mariupol…
Evraz Sukhaya Balka miners have stopped their strike. On May 12 all the miners returned to the surface. For more than two days employees of two mines remained on their working places demanding increase of wages. On May 11 all the work at the mines was halted for safety reasons. (Ukrainian metal)
The Ministry of energy and coal industry has renamed the state enterprise Krasnoarmeyskugol Mirnogradugol, as the decommunization law dictates. Earlier the town of Krasnoarmeysk, where the company is situated, was renamed Mirnograd. The state enterprise comprises 4 mines, yielding power-generating and coking coal. (Ukrainian metal)
Last year Ufaleinickel produced 10.2 thousand tons of nickel, down by 7% YoY. According to the company statement, this had to do with the instable operation. In 2016 the company sold 543 tons of nickel on the local market, exporting 9.62 thousand tons to far foreign countries and 658.5 tons to CIS. 289 tons of…
In January-April subsoil users of Magadan region mined 5012 kg of gold, up by 52% YoY. The region has also started working on the alluvial gold. In particular Susumanzoloto yielded 100 kg of gold. According to Kolyma governor Vladimir Pecheniy, this year the region intends to yield 30.5 tons of gold, up by 10% YoY,…
The miners of the Mugunsky site, a part of Tulunugol open-pit, yielded 100-millionth ton of coal. The deposits are being developed since 1992. All the coal mined there could be loaded into 500 thousand cars with the length of 18 thousand km. Azeisky open-pit has so far mined over 300 million tons of coal, Tulunsky…
Severstal has started repairs of the Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works coking battery No. 4. The total cost of the investment project is 6 billion rubles. The battery has been working for almost 59 years without repairs, which is a world record. The battery was shut down on May 2. In 18 months it will…