As a result of a sudden fall of the rock an employee was hit at the Ekspluatatsionnaya mine of the Zaporozhye Iron Ore Complex. Despite medical aid, the miner died of the injuries. A special commission has been created at the enterprise to investigate the accident. Minerfin (Slovakia) owns 51.17% of ZZhRK, Zaporizhstal – 29.5%…
Uchaly Mining and Processing Works power shop has finished the construction of a switching substation 6 kW with 19 units at the electric substation No. 63 “Shakhty”. The commissioning of the switching substation will be the first stage to expand the “Shakhty” to provide a new mine and the second stage of the waste treatment…
Rostov region police have found a large-scale fraud connected with metal market. An ex-director of a closed company dealing in metal and metal ore wholesale has concluded a fictitious contract with a foreign company to supply ferroalloys raw materials. But instead of the expensive raw materials metal waste was shipped. After that the ex-director filed…
An extraordinary shareholders meeting at Norilsk Nickel decided to pay 776.02 rubles of dividends per ordinary share (some $11.37) for the first half of 2018. The total amount of funds to be paid as dividends is 122.8 billion rubles (around $1.8 billion). (Ukrainian metal)
The Eurasian Economic Committee suggests prolonging the current antidumping duties against Chinese seamless pipes of stainless steel for 5 more years. The duties target seamless, cold-drawn or cold-rolled ferrous pipes, tubes and hollow sections of corrosion-resistant steel manufactured by Chinese companies and imported to the territory of the EEU from China and Malaysia. The current…
Chief Executive Officer of PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih and member of the Board of European Business Association (EBA) Paramjit Kahlon mentioned five main challenges foreign investors faced with in Ukraine in his opinion. “First thing required for stable performance of big international companies is investor-friendly attitude within the whole period of their activity. They should…
Prices of precious metals increased in Azerbaijan on September 21, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The price of gold grew by 6.4515 manats, to 2,056.014 manats per ounce on September 21 compared to the price on September 20. The price of silver went up by 0.0974 manats, to 24.454 manats per…
The U.S. Treasury’s decision that Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL can enter new transactions with existing customers in 2019 is likely to stabilize aluminum prices as it removes some uncertainty over the company’s metal deliveries, international rating agency Fitch said in a statement. “The sanctions against RUSAL are among the main short-term drivers for global…
