The works to produce titanium dioxide in the town of Armyansk in the Russia-annexed Crimea has been granted the rights to resume operation after a halt in early September because of the air pollution. The manufacturing wastes have been dumped since early 1970s. The size of the technical reservoir is 42 square kilometers and the…
The Federal Agency on subsoil use has announced an auction for the development and extraction of bismuth-containing copper-cobalt ores at the Western site of Kara-Jul ore lode in the Republic of Altai. The initial price of a 20-year license will be 413.07 million rubles. The Moscow-based company Altairudametall owned the license in 2006-2015. But the…
Albert Avdolyan has completely cleared the salary debts to the employees of the Hydrometallurgical Works (510 people) in the amount of 27 million rubles and to Intermix-Met LLC (170 people) for 9 million rubles. Avdolyan has also become the sole owner of the Yuzhnaya Power Company. All these companies are a part of the privatized…
In 2019 Evraz intends to sell 13.7 thousand tons of vanadium, up by 7% from the forecast for 2018 (12.8 thousand tons). The increase has to do with the sales of stocks. In mid-term the company also plans to optimize its manufacture at Kachkanarsky Mining and Processing Works to develop iron ore stocks with higher…
In August Russia exported 423.3 thousand tons of raw aluminum, up by 42.15% YoY. In January-August, according to the customs statistics, the exports totaled 2.15 million tons valued at $3910 million, up by 12.2% and by 25.2% YoY respectively. In August the average prices was $1809 per ton, up by 8.2% MoM. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-August Russia exported 540 thousand tons of copper valued at $3551 million, up by 11.3% and by 27.9% YoY respectively. The volume of primary copper exceeded 80%. In August the average primary copper price was $5897 per ton, down by 9.4% YoY. Copper wire rod price was $6196 per ton, up by 4.3%. (Ukrainian…
In January-September Kuzbassrazrezugol mined 36.2 million tons of coal, up by 1.2% from the plan and by 1.2 million tons YoY, including 4.8 million tons of coking coal. 31.5 million tons of coal have been shipped to the customers, in particular, 22.3 million tons for exports. The local market received 9.1 million tons. Factories processed…
Artem Nazim, the ex-chief accountant of Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine, has been appointed to the same office at Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works. Olga Zaremba, who has been the DMZ chief accountant for two months, has been relieved of her duties from October 21. Instead of Nazim, the chief accountant at DMK is now…