Gold output of GV Gold rose by 50% YoY and by 27% QoQ, to 92,500 ounces in July-September, the company said in a statement on October 18. In January-September production grew by 64% YoY, to 220,300 ounces. In 2018 the company plans to produce 280,000-300,000 ounces of gold. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)
The employees of the Alaverdi Copper Works have started striking demanding the government to allow it to increase sulfur dioxide emissions. Otherwise the fines, imposed by environment protection authorities, will make the company operation unprofitable. Earlier the State Inspection on Environment Protection has fined the works for 380 million drams ($700 thousand) for the serious…
In January-September Polymetal Int. produced 801 thousand ounces of gold, up by 6%, 19.4 million ounces of silver, down by 4%, 2.5 thousand tons of copper (+33%) and 4.3 thousand tons of zinc (+20%). The overall output of gold equivalent was 1066 thousand ounces, up by 4%. Ore processing grew by 14%, to 11.4 million…
In January-September Kapan Mining and Processing Works, a part of Polymetal International plc, processed 470 thousand tons of ore as opposed to 389 thousand tons in 9 months of 2017. In Q3 ore processing volumes totaled 158 thousand tons against 143 thousand tons. Ore output in Q3 was 159 thousand tons (136 thousand tons in…
In January-September MMK produced 7.301 million tons of pig iron and 9.552 million tons of steel, down by 2.8% and by 0.2% YoY respectively. Metal products output grew by 0.6%, to 8.599 million tons. Bars accounted for 1.372 million tons, up by 0.3%, hot-rolled sheets – 3.92 million tons, up by 3.2%, and cold-rolled sheets…
According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in January-September Russia produced 38.9 million tons of pig iron, up by 0.4% YoY. In September manufacture dropped by 2.2% YoY and by 4% MoM. Rolled metal output increased by 2.5%, to 46.3 million tons. In September production fell by 3.1% MoM and by 0.2% YoY. Pipe…
Corum has produced a KA200 shearer for the Mine named after Space Heroes of DTEK Pavlogradugol. The Space Heroes miners intend to extract some 2750 tons of coal per day. To decrease coal losses, Corum machine-builders have additionally equipped the shearer with rake-in devices and Lechler multi-injectors. Corum has also repaired a scrapper machine. (Ukrainian…
In January-September Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works received 4.1 billion rubles of net profit, up 2.4-fold YoY. Revenue grew by 7.6%, to 94.5 billion rubles. The company accounts payable dropped from 21.8 billion rubles in early 2018 to 16.8 billion rubles at the end of Q3. Accounts receivable also decreased – from 27.8 billion rubles…
