In January Russia increased lead concentrate output by 45.3% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, the results are below December 2016 by 1.8%. The Federal Service does not inform of lead concentrate output in 2016. (Ukrainian metal)
Artem Gold-Ore Company has officially put the new gold producing machine into operation. The machinery allows producing 287 kg of gold per year. The project created 120 jobs. Artem Company invested 400 million rubles to resume the work on the project: it bought all the necessary equipment, finished construction of the buildings and purchased materials…
Miners at Yerunakovskaya-VIII have started extracting coal from the new 48-5 long face. Its reserves are estimated at 3 million tons of coking coal. The operation of the long face is expected to end in Q1 2018. The Yerunakovskaya-VIII mine extracts GZh grade coal from the depth of 470 meters. After it is processed at…
The public joint stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannya intends to order steel pipes valued at 1.15 billion UAH from Interpipe. The total expected cost of the purchase was 1.17 billion UAH, thus the company would save 1.7%. According to the first contract, by summer Interpipe will have supplied 2510 seamless and arc-welded pipes valued at 107.93 million…
Zaporozhye Titanium and Magnesium Works has ordered Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Works, a part of the United Mining and Chemical Company, the delivery of ilmenite valued at 118.91 million UAH. By the end of the year the company will have supplied 28764 tons of ilmenite concentrate with 64-65% TiO2 contents at 4134 UAH per ton…
The minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik declared that the state enterprise “State Coal Company” came to terms with Ukrgazbank to attract a loan of 300 million UAH into coalmine modernization. The State Coal Company was created in September 2014 to sell coal of state miners. The 2017 state budget will provide 870…
Gold mining company Nordgold, controlled by Russian businessman Alexei Mordashov, has postponed delisting from the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to March 16, from Thursday to synchronize the delisting with closing of a buyback offering, the company said in a statement. Nordgold may acquire global depositary receipts (GDRs) from minority shareholders for $118 million, or $3.45…
At present Azovstal Iron and Steel Works is operating at 50-55% capacity, but it could drop to 40% in case the railroad blockade is not stopped. According to the company CEO Enver Tskitishvili, the works is not receiving coking coals of the necessary quality, while coke from Russia is expensive – $360 per ton. “Altaikoks…