Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Works decided to finally increase wages. On May 16, the employees made a strike declaring that in 5 years their wages had decreased by a quarter. After the strike they met the company director, but to no avail. According to the new orders, from June 1 the wages at the company will increase…
Arkhara LLC, extracting gold on the territory of the Jewish Autonomous District, intends to obtain 150 kg of alluvial gold this year. At present the company is operating at one licensed site – the Fedoseyka River. So far 40 kg of gold have been extracted Last year the output was 200 kg. Arkhara, operating since…
Three Rusal companies have passed a certification according to the standards of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI). The certification will help improve the manufacturing-sales network. Bauxite of Timan, Ural Aluminum Works and Irkut Aluminum Works have successfully passed certification according to ASI Performance Standard and ASI Chain of Custody Standard. Rusal intends to certify all…
The drawing site of the Severstal Steel Ropes Volgograd subsidiary has implemented an accounting technique resulting in the increase in the operation efficiency. The changes are related to the system of every wire drawer output fixation. Now all the work is accounted, including the weight of the unfinished coil. “The changes made to the accounting…
Alexei Raychev has replaced Sergey Sivtsov as chairman of the commission on the state enterprise Mine named after Surgay reorganization. Until 2018 Raychev has been the director of the state enterprise Krasnolimanskaya Coal Company. Sivtsov has been fired some hours after he has concluded an agreement to supply coal from the state mine to the…
Some 1,395 kilograms of gold were extracted in Azerbaijan in January-May, up by 9.8% YoY, the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee reported. Silver production in Azerbaijan increased by 18.1%. According to the statistics, the total volume of the extracted silver and concentrates reached 1,364 kilograms. Some 805 tons of copper ore and concentrates (+44.9%) were extracted…
Reclamation of uranium tailings in Mailuu-Suu will begin in September-October, representative of the European Commission Pascal Daures reported. According to him, all the preparatory work within EU Programme “Environmental Remediation in Central Asia” has been completed. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will begin holding tenders and signing work contracts in September. As Pascal…
In April Russia imported 15.7 thousand tons of copper ore and concentrate, down by 68.7% MoM and by 64% YoY. The price in April dropped by 9.6%, to $1222 per ton. In 4 months copper ore imports decreased by 22.6% YoY, to 153.4 thousand tons. But in monetary terms they grew by 11%. (Ukrainian metal)