In January-February Kazakhstan mined 15 thousand tons of lead, up by 8.7% YoY. Lead concentrate mining grew by 18.7%, to 57.1 thousand tons. Lead-zinc ores mining dropped by 13.6%, to 844.5 thousand tons. Raw lead manufacture increased by 11.2%, to 26.4 thousand tons. In 2018 Kazakhstan exported 126.1 thousand tons of raw lead, up by…
Granit LLC, extracting alluvial gold in Zabaikalye region, has increased its output plan for this year to 60 kg. Last year the enterprise yielded 85 kg of gold with the initial plan of 54 kg. This year Granit will operate at two sites – Dedushkina Padushka and at the Davenda River. In 2017 gold output…
Evraz NTMK has supplied over 3 thousand tons of flanged beams for the construction of the shopping mall “Grozny Mall”. In particular, flanged beams with the length of 6.5 to 12.5 meters made of vanadium-alloyed steel were produced. The company beam shop can produce over 300 types of beams. This year the company intends to…
Taganrog Iron and Steel Works has mastered the non-stop changes of the tundish ladles at the site of the continuous casting of 400-mm diameter steel billets. This has allowed increasing daily output by 10%. Tagmet has been using the continuous casting technique since 2006. In 2013 it started implementing non-stop switching tundish ladles. Previously this…
In March Zaporizhstal produced 356 thousand tons of steel, down by 0.1% YoY. Pig iron output grew by 5.9%, to 387 thousand tons, while that of rolled metal dropped by 5.2%, to 296 thousand tons. In January-March Zaporizhstal produced 1.115 million tons of pig iron, 1.028 million tons of steel and 805 thousand tons of…
In March Ukraine increased pig iron output by 14.7% MoM, to 1.8 million tons. Steel manufacture grew by 16.1%, to 1.96 million tons, and rolled metal – by 11.4%, to 1.54 million tons. In Q1 pig iron output dropped by 2.1% YoY, to 5.18 million tons. Steel manufacture increased by 4.5%, to 5.5 million tons,…
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) sold around 1.8 million tons of long products in 2018, of which 98% were shipped to the domestic market including CIS countries. This was announced by the MMK Sales Department’s leading expert, Alexander Margishvili, at the “Long and Shaped Products: New Market Configuration” conference which took place in Moscow.…
A number of state coalmines on April 1 were cut off grid. According to the National Miners’ Union chairman Mikhail Volynets, mines of the state enterprises Volynugol (Volyn region), Lisichanskugol, Pervomayskugol and Mirnogradugol (all three – Lugansk region), as well as the mines Kapitalnaya and Centralnaya have been cut off grid. The enterprises are working…