The Sayanogorsk Aluminum Smelter of the Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has slashed its power loading by 410 megawatts (MW) to 600 MW without warning, and is carrying out emergency maintenance works, the Energy Ministry’s emergency research center said in a statement on April 10. The Sayanogorsk Aluminum Smelter is RUSAL’s third largest producer of…
In Q1 Amur Zoloto LLC produced 174.7 kg of gold. In particular, the Yubileyniy Mining and Processing Works at the Krasivoye deposits processed 25.3 thousand tons of ore. The output totaled 173.4 kg of gold and 109.9 kg of silver. In May the company will start working at the alluvial sites. (Ukrainian metal)
Buryatzoloto, the largest gold-extracting company in the Republic of Buryatia, intends to increase gold reserves at its Irokinda and Kholbinsky mines in 2018 by 4.2 tons. As of early 2018 the company balanced reserves amount to 18.7 tons. To increase the reserves, this year the company will have to drill 112 km of shafts, investing…
Yanolovo will start developing the Tirekhtyakhskoye tin deposits in 2019 with the support from a Chinese investor. Investments in the project are estimated at 4 billion rubles. The project will cover Russia’s domestic needs in tin. At present Russia buys tin from China, but its reserves are running low. Thus, in future some Russian tin…
Evraz NTMK has put into operation the new blast furnace No. 7. The volume of the furnace is 2200 cubic meters, and the project capacity – 2.5 million tons of pig iron per year. The blast furnace, one of the largest investment projects lately, has been constructed in just 18 months. This is the cleanest…
In February Zlatoust Electrometallurgical Works produced 1.64 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant bars, up by 90% YoY. Chromic rolled metal output increased 2.1-fold, to 564 tons, while that of nickel-containing metal – by 82%, to 1.08 thousand tons. In January-February stainless steel output totaled 3.3 thousand tons, up 2.1-fold YoY. Chromic rolled metal manufacture grew 2.6-fold,…
TMK Chermet has started carrying out the first stage of the two-year program to increase manufacturing capacities. In Q1 within the modernization of the site in Bataysk, near Rostov-on-Don, the company increased its automobile fleet. In particular, it has put into operation a new Kamaz, three truck tractors with three semi trailers and a Liebherr…
In January-March Yakovlevsky Mine extracted 250 thousand tons of ore, up 3-fold YoY, which met the business target. The company sold 270 thousand tons of ore, up by 8% from the plan. The average iron contents in the ore were 60.6%. In Q1 the mine put into operation a new ventilation system. The machinery valued…
