During the current washing season the Olbot gold-extracting team LLC intends to extract at least 100 kg of gold. The company is washing for gold on the territory of Susuman district of Magadan region in the valleys of the Bolshoy Khatynakh and Sabygyl-Stanovoy brooks. Olbot started its washing season in May. This year the gold…
Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant has fulfilled its duties to the National bank of Ukraine under an amicable agreement by clearing the PrivatBank debts on the refinancing loan. In May 2018 the NBU filed a claim to the Commercial Court of Dniepropetrovsk region to recover NZF assets pledged to PrivatBank to receive the refinancing loan. On August…
Stoilensky, a part of NLMK Group, a global steel company, has began construction of a new stage (Stage 3) of its thickening unit, a hydrotechnical facility that dewaters the slurry, and thickens the solids, before transporting them to dedicated tailing pits. The separated water is recycled and returned into the process. This project will enable…
Under an investment project to reconstruct Tashtagol mine the first self-propelled machines have reached the enterprise. A drilling rig, a boring machine and a loading machine have been commissioned at the depth of 280 meters. Until the end of the year the mine will receive three more machines. Until 2021 Evraz intends to have 20…
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said the operation of the Amulsar gold mine might start in Q4 2020 at the earliest, but that the most likely time frame was the first quarter of 2021. Pashinyan in a live Facebook address urged the residents of nearby settlements to unblock the roads leading to the mine. The Prime…
In January-August Ukraine exported 4.871 million tons of carbon steel semi-finished products, up by 9.9% YoY, valued at $2.044 billion, down by 3.6% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main buyers were Italy (31.02%), Egypt (15.06%) and Turkey (7.86%). In 8 months Ukraine imported 34.471 thousand tons of semis, up by 20.7% YoY,…
Kolmar could start regular sales of coking coal to India in summer 2020. “We have signed spot contracts with Indian partners. The sales could start in the first quarter of 2020 with the launch of the Vanino port. I believe, next year the exports will become regularly”, Kolmar Group board of directors’ chairwoman Anna Tsivileva…
In June Russia imported 536 tons of tantalum, including scrap, down by 49.6% MoM and by 66% YoY. After a considerable increase in supplies China has decreased them 4-fold, to 51 tons, and Kazakhstan – by 37%, to 485 tons. In 6 months tantalum imports totaled 4.1 thousand tons, down by 41.8% YoY. In monetary…