In January-September Ukraine produced 1225.76 thousand tons of manganese concentrate, up by 8% YoY. Pokrovsky GOK manufactured 831.67 thousand tons of manganese concentrate and 91 thousand tons of manganese sinter (down by 44.6%). Marganets GOK manufactured 394 thousand tons of the concentrate, down by 7.6%. Pokrovsky GOK mines 70% of manganese ore in Ukraine. Its…
Russian Railroads suggest excluding aluminum and raw materials for its manufacture from the list of cargo not subject to a 8% export duty. The Federal Antimonopoly Service has already received the company suggestion. So far the duty was used on coal only. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September Petropavlovsk PLC produced 342.3 thousand ounces of gold, up by 23.4% YoY. The increase is due to the growth of output at Malomyr and Albyn mines because of the higher gold content in ore, as well as processing of concentrate at Pokrovsky combine, which started in July. This year Petropavlovsk intends to produce…
3 new generation locomotives have joined the Stoylensky Mining and Processing Works railroad fleet. Their efficiency is 8% higher compared with previous models. The new machines have been purchased under a program to increase ore mining and processing from 37 to 42 million tons per year. All the locomotives have dump-cars with the capacity of…
In 10 years Rusal has processed and sold over 50% of aluminum waste generated by its companies. The processing of alumina sludge accounted for some 10%, which made Rusal the major global processor. The group has a goal of selling all its wastes. Now Rusal is testing an innovative technique to process red sludge, the…
The department of the inner market protection of the Eurasian Economic Committee has decided to prolong the antidumping investigation on the imports of galvanized rolled metal from Ukraine and China. The investigation will run till December 28. The 5-year antidumping duty for Ukrainian products is recommended on the level of 23.9%, and for Chinese –…
Metinvest has decided to publish information on the operation of its Mariupol metal plants modernized mills. The first will be the data on average daily dust concentration from Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works sintering machines Nos. 7-9. This information will be daily provided to be posted on the site of the Donetsk Regional State…
Liquid copper spilled out due to a malfunction at a copper refinery Uraleketromed, a part of Ural Mining Metallurgical Company (UMMC), causing evacuation of 50 employees, the Sverdlovsk region’s Directorate of the Emergency Ministry said. “Liquid copper spilled out from a copper furnace on an area of 10 square meters, 50 people were evacuated from…