In January-February Ukraine imported 232.48 thousand tons of nickel ore and concentrate valued at $10.913 million, up by 17.3% and by 14.9% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, Guatemala supplied 59.09% worth of nickel ores and Indonesia – 40.91%. Last year Ukraine decreased nickel ore and concentrate imports by 4.2% YoY, to 1.313…
In January-February Ukraine increased pig iron exports by 50.9% YoY, to 524.7 thousand tons valued at $171.7 million, up by 72.3%. According to the State Fiscal Service, USA imported 50.5% worth of pig iron, Italy – 16.3% and Turkey – 13.2%. In 2 months Ukraine imported 212 tons of pig iron valued at $132 thousand,…
In 10 years the consumption of chemical reagents in the Russian gold-extracting industry increased 3-fold, to 210 thousand tons in 2017. At the same time, gold mining increased only 2-fold, to 187 tons. In future the reagents market will be determined by the gold output increase. Sodium cyanide consumption by 2025 could grow to 120…
The state enterprise Selidovugol has cleared salary debts to its employees. According to Mikhail Volynets, the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine, the miners have started receiving SMS about the payment of salary. In particular, they were paid in full for January and a part of the February salary. Volynets hopes that miners…
Gold production at the Kumtor mine in 2017 was 562,749 ounces or 17,503.46 kg, Public Relations Department of Kumtor Gold Company reported. Gold sales in 2017 were 550,134 ounces or 17,111.09 kg with a revenue totaling $685.2 million. According to preliminary reports of the KR National Statistics Committee, Kumtor’s share in KR GDP in 2017…
In January-February Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Works increased output 2-fold. According to the company CEO Musa Magomedov, at the same time in February the city of Avdiivka was on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe. “Because of the problems with electricity supply we had to shut down two coking shops to provide the city with heating”,…
Severstal has selected the supplier of the main machinery for the construction of the coking battery with coal charge tamping at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. Paul Wurth S.A. (Luxembourg) will supply the machinery and design the construction of the new complex. The total cost of the investment project is over 30 billion rubles. The…
Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works has put into operation new machinery in the high-strength wire shop. The modernization allowed the company to stop using acid in wire manufacture, decrease industrial wastewater volume 8-fold and considerably increase its purification. BMK began the project in 2015. Investments totaled 200 million rubles. Two new industrial lines made by…