Last year the Ministry of Investments and Development held auctions for the usage of subsoil resources on 58 sites. According to the ministry, gold reserves increased by 35 tons, silver – by 25 thousand tons, uranium – by 14 thousand tons, tungsten – by 70 tons and copper by 1.1 million tons. (Ukrainian metal)
Trading house MMK has opened a new office in the city of Shymkent. This is the fifth site of the company in Kazakhstan. The warehouse site is equipped with 2 cranes and is situated near the highway to Astana. The site offers all the product range of MMK: hot- and cold-rolled metal, rebars, sections, coated…
In 2018 Severstal will spend over 31 billion rubles for the development of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works and other assets of the Russian Steel division. More than half of investments will fall on the development projects, the major being the construction of a new blast furnace No. 3 with the capacity of 2.9 million…
This year Magadan region plans to mine 345 thousand tons of coal, up by 4.3% YoY. In January mining output totaled 46 thousand tons, up by 15% YoY. Last year the region obtained 330.9 thousand tons of coal, with 242.8 thousand tons provided by the Kolyma Coal Company and 88.1 thousand tons by the Association…
In 2017 Russia obtained 306.9 tons of gold, up by 6.3% YoY. According to the Ministry of Finances press-service, mined gold output totaled 253.9 tons (237.8 tons in 2016), by-product gold – 16.4 tons (15.3 tons) and secondary gold – 36.6 tons (35.4 tons). Silver output in 2017 decreased by 4% YoY, to 1.044 million…
In January the railroad deliveries from NLMK both to Russian customers and for exports totaled 1.13 million tons, up by 8.9% MoM and by 5% YoY. Moreover, this is the third highest result in 10 years (October 2017 – 1.16 million tons, March 2017 – 1.15 million tons). In January 409 thousand tons were supplied…
Severo-Kavkazskoye PGO, a part of Russia’s state geological exploration company Rosgeo, has discovered 73.79 tons of inferred gold reserves at the Dakhovskaya area of the Belorechensky structure in the southern republic of Adygeya. According to the company statement on February 14, the project is implemented under a 173.2 million ruble state contract concluded by the…
In 2017 ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih considerably decreased energy consumption. In particular, total power intensity was 25.231 gigajoule per 1 ton of liquid steel. This year the total energy consumption is planned on the level of 25.195 gigajoule per ton. Last year the company achieved the historical lows of electricity consumption – 4.194 billion kW-h and…