In January-June automobile transportation of metal and mining products decreased. In particular, transportation of iron ore fell by 40%, to 415.3 thousand tons, and of metal – by 15.6%, to 1.49 million tons. According to the State Statistics Service, transportation of iron, steel, pig iron and ferroalloys dropped by 2.4%, to 370 thousand tons, of…
As of August 1, Magadan region has extracted 23.791 tons of gold, up by 4886 kg YoY. Tenkinskiy city district provided the most ore gold – 11496.1 kg. Alluvial gold output totaled 8022.8 kg, with the most gold contributed by Yagodinskiy city district (3304.6 kg). The region has also mined 388.4 tons of silver. The…
MirBlagMet LLC, developing alluvial gold deposits in Amur region, has since the start of the season obtained 73 kg of gold. The rise of the water level in the Dugda River, where the company is operating, has complicated the sand washing. If the water level continues increasing, the company will have to suspend operation. At…
Magnitogorsk was removed from a list of Russian cities with very high levels of air pollution, according to a report by the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) in 2018. Thanks to MMK’s large-scale environmental programme, the Comprehensive Air-quality Index (CAI) indicator for the city will be reduced to a low level by…
In June Russia imported 127.8 thousand tons of manganese ore and concentrate, up by 55.2% MoM and by 17.5% YoY. South Africa accounted for 100 thousand tons, up 2-fold MoM. Kazakhstan slightly increased supplies, to 14.6 thousand tons, while imports from Gabon dropped by 27%, to 12.7 thousand tons. In January-June Russia imported 517.6 thousand…
“The safety of workers in Georgia’s mines is at serious risk,” reads the beginning of the first paragraph of the Human Rights Watch research “No Year without Deaths: A Decade of Deregulation Puts Georgian Miners at Risk”. The 60-page research says that the risk is caused by “insufficient government regulation and resulting mining practices that…
International arbitration satisfied about 6% of claims of Stans Energy Corp. and Kutessay Mining LLC to Kyrgyzstan, having ruled to compensate only some direct costs for development of Kutessay II and Kalesay deposits and a part of the court costs, but rejected the rest of the claims, the Center for Legal Representation of the government…
AzerGold company has attracted AZ Dag-Medenistismar as a drilling contractor, the government procurement website reports. The contract between the parties was signed for 10.307 million manats, according to the source. In 2018 exploration and drilling operations were carried out at depths of up to 17,000 meters, and metallurgical, laboratory, geotechnical and hydrological studies were carried…