In January-February Azerbaijan obtained 1353.4 kg of gold, up 7.5-fold YoY. According to the State Statistics Committee, in February gold output totaled 608.3 kg. Last year the country yielded 6390.8 kg of gold, up 3.4-fold YoY. Gold and silver in Azerbaijan are mined at the Kedabek and Gosha deposits. (Ukrainian metal)
In January zinc ore mining dropped by 19.6% YoY, to 39.5 thousand tons. Zinc concentrate output totaled 19.6 thousand tons, down by 22.5%. Lead-zinc ore mining also decreased – by 21.7%. And only copper-zinc ores output grew by 7.7%. Similar trend was observed in previous years as well. In 2016 Kazakhstan mined 324.8 thousand tons…
Severniy Mining and Processing Works, Central Mining and Processing Works and Ingulets Mining and Processing Works have announced the price of the forced share buy-out (squeeze-out). For CGOK the price was set at 3.89 UAH per share, for SevGOK – 4.45 UAH and for InGOK – 2.56 UAH per share. Metinvest owns 99.75098% in CGOK,…
As a result of a cave-in at the Gaysky GOK mine two miners were damaged. This is the third accident at the enterprise in a month. The employees are in the emergency clinic. The regional union promised to help. (Ukrainian metal)
The Siberian Mining and Metallurgical Alliance has decided to postpone the commissioning of the first stage of Ozernovsky Iron and Steel Works in Kamchatka for a month. Now the line with the capacity of 100 thousand tons of ore per year (2 tons of gold) will be put into operation in late April. “It is…
Within the program of the company development till 2020, Uralsibmet (Irkutsk) has opened a new metal base in the city of Krasnoyarsk. The product range includes rebars, beams, hot- and cold-rolled sheet, channel, angles, pipes, etc. Thus the company is implementing its plan to expand the regions of its presence. Now the company is present…
The capacities to produce galvanized and coated metal in Russia continue increasing. Soon such a line with a capacity of 400 thousand tons per year will be commissioned at Severstal. The Leningrad and Orel regions now posses polymer-coating lines with the capacity of 40 thousand tons per year. According to a survey, some 34% of…
From March 1 Severstal has started selling locked-coil ropes in metal drums only. The drum is included in the price, but could be bought out by the company. “The main goal of the innovation is to keep the rope safe while loading, transporting and unloading. The wooden drum could break, which could damage the rope.…
