The U.S. Commerce Department has suggested Washington introduce prohibitive import duties on steel and aluminum from Russia, China, and other countries to boost local production and employment. The department suggested a 53% duty on steel imports from Russia, Brazil, China, Costa-Rica, Egypt, India, Malaysia, South Korea, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam and a 24%…
The Far Eastern Development Fund (FEDF) and China Gold intend to sign documents to establish a joint fund for gold mining investment, including the Klyuchevskoye field near Lake Baikal, head of FEDF Alexei Chekunkov declared. “We with the Chinese partners have agreed that with a high degree of probability this deal will become the first…
Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska plans to resign from the president positions at aluminum giant UC RUSAL and multi-industry holding En+ Group. Deripaska will remain a non-executive director at boards of directors of the companies. Current CEO of En+ Maxim Sokov will become the president of the holding, while RUSAL CEO Vladislav Solovyov will become the…
The government of Tajikistan has bought 5% of shares in the Zarafshon gold mining facility, a Tajik-Chinese joint venture, for $1, a source in the Tajik government said on February 15. The agreement with the Chinese side was signed by Farrukh Hamralizoda, head of the Tajik State Property Committee, on the instruction of Tajik President…
The state enterprise Yuzhnodonbasskoye No. 1 Mine Group has ordered the Girnyk LLC the work to replace reinforcing of the cage shaft valued at 15.17 million UAH. The works have to be carried within 3 months. The contractor has to provide a 12-months guarantee. (Ukrainian metal)
PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) after blocking the receipt of raw materials from the territory temporarily uncontrolled by Ukraine has started purchases in the Russian Federation. Girish Sardana, the head of the company’s supply department, said that basically the problems in 2017 concerned the supply of raw materials. According to him, “in connection with…
The Kremlin will not interfere in disagreements between shareholders of Norilsk Nickel, but hopes they will not hurt its operations, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared. Tycoon Vladimir Potanin’s Interros, the owner of 30.3% in Norilsk Nickel, offered to buy a 4.95% stake in the company from Crispian Investments Ltd, affiliated with Roman Abramovich and his…
On February 18 Metinvest paid $14.8 million of interest on Eurobonds with the maturity on December 31, 2021. This volume consists of $8.289 million of guaranteed interest income of 2.793% for the period from November 18, 2017 till February 18, 2018, as well as $6.508 million of non-guaranteed interest income for the period of January…
