Prices of precious metals except for palladium changed over to increase in Azerbaijan on August 6, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The price of gold increased by 13.5235 manats, to 2066.01 manats per ounce compared to the price on August 3. The price of silver increased by 0.2476 manats, to 26.2594…
In July DTEK Dneprovskoye Mine Group put 3 long faces into operation. On July 31 the mine named after Stashkov commissioned another face. DTEK investments totaled 39.9 million UAH. The long face will yield 500 thousand tons of power-generating coal. By the end of the year DTEK Dneprovskoye Mine Group intends to have commissioned 4…
The speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Parubiy has signed the decree on state coal industry financing. The decree has been sent to the president Petro Poroshenko. 261 members of the parliament voted in favor of the decree. The decree aims to clear salary debts to state miners. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-June Dalnegorsk Mining and Processing Works mined 469.5 thousand tons of datolite ore, down by 8% YoY. From August 3 all the machinery at the works is gradually shut down for 25-30 days for repair. The works will be resumed in September. As of January 1, 2017 the datolite ore reserves at the Dalnegorskoye…
Mechel has prolonged the contract to supply coal to Baosteel Resources, a part of China Baowu Steel. The new agreement is valid till June 2019. Within this period Mechel will ship 700 thousand tons of premium grade coking coal to China – up to 40 thousand tons each month. The price will be set on…
In January-June Primorye region extracted 104 kg of gold, including 70.5 kg of ore gold and 33.5 kg of alluvial gold, down by 18% YoY. The main extractor of ore gold in the region is Primorksiy Mining and Processing Works operating at the Vostoc-2 deposits. Silver output dropped by 20%, to 16.9 tons. Last year…
Energomashspetsstal is developing cooperation with the customers. In February the company obtained a qualification order from AM/NS Calvert to produce 3 supporting rolls for hot-rolling mills. One of the rolls weighing 19.7 tons has already been shipped to the customer. Two more rolls with the weight of 48.8 tons each are on the final stage…
NTZ TEM-PO has reached the annual capacity of 840 thousand tons of pipes (6 manufacturing lines). The company also has the capacities to coat pipes (10 thousand tons per month). On August 3 NTZ TEM-PO commissioned the line to produce large diameter pipes (from 530 to 720 mm, with the wall thickness of 6 to…