By the end of the year Chinese investors will have carried out two projects. The first is the construction of the metal works by Forever Fourshing Co. Ltd. Investments will total 7.4 billion tenge. The plant will produce 300 thousand tons of metal per year, with 80% to be exported. The company intends to export…
The underground mine of Gaysky GOK is prepared to commission a new ore chute complex for loose materials needed to produce concrete. “Previously sand and crushed stone, needed to make the mixture, were delivered to the 910-meters horizon. It took 3 hours to load one machine, get down there, unload and get back to the…
In 2017 Russia imported 280 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant flat steel valued at $604 million, up by 19.7% and by 32.7% MoM respectively. According to the customs statistics, this is also the record-high result for the past several years. Sheet with the width of 600+ mm accounts for 90% of the imports. The main supplier…
A Japanese and an Austrian company are interested in investing in Krivoy Rog Oxidized Ores Mining and Processing Works. According to the Ministry of economic development and trade, the first vice prime minister Stepan Kubiv met with Hiroshi Ishikawa of Kobe Steel. “The group of companies has developed a new technique of processing oxidized ores…
The Russian central bank has held several gold deals on the Moscow Exchange since the start of the year, Larisa Selyutina, director of the securities and commodities department of the authority, said at a conference on March 6. “The Central Bank of Russia puts bids daily on the order book, but there were only a…
The administration of the Chinese city of Hejin decided to explore coal reserves of Ekibastuz. A delegation from Hejin visited the city of Ekibastuz, Pavlodar region. As it turned out, the coal of Ekibastuz is attractive for Yangguang Company that deals with coal conversion. Last year the Chinese city was twinned with the coal capital…
The DCH Group of Alexander Yaroslavsky, owner of the Kharkiv Tractor Works, Sukhaya Balka and Dneporvsky Iron and Steel Works, intends to get a synergy effect of the cooperation of its three assets. “We will try to reach synergy, as DMZ produces metal, and KhTZ consumes a lot of metal. DMZ also consumes Sukhaya Balka…
The members of the Kirovograd regional council have allowed the Petro-Consulting LLC to mine for lithium in the Dobrovelichkovka district. The company has promised to carry out some investment projects: repair the school, build the blow well for the school, repair two medical premises, etc. According to the company, lithium mining will be carried at…
