Since the start of the year Raspadskaya mine has extracted 2 million tons of coal. In 2018, 2 million tons were mined in April. This year it is expected to mine 6.5 million tons of coal. (Ukrainian metal)
Stoilensky, the second largest producer of iron ore concentrate in Russia, has signed a development contract with the Finnish company Outotec to increase the pelletizing plant’s installed capacity by a third – from 6 million tons to 8 million tons of pellets per year. Under the contract, Outotec experts will design, supply main equipment and…
The U.S. Court of International Trade has upheld an earlier decision to apply a 184.56% duty on imports by Russian steel producer Severstal, Bloomberg reported on March 28, citing the court decision. The U.S. Commerce Department slapped the duty on hot-rolled and sheet-rolled steel imported by Severstal between December 2014 and November 2015. The authority…
International rating agency S&P Global Ratings (S&P) has placed B+ long-term ratings of pipe producer TMK in foreign and local currency on the list for possible upgrade, the agency said in a statement. The rating decision followed the announcement of a sale of TMK’s affiliate in the U.S. IPSCO Tubulars. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)
Central Asian Uranium Company will invest in Kara-Balta Mining Plant OJSC (KBMP) and uranium mining at Kyzyl-Ompol deposit. Representative of Russian shareholders Andrey Akimov, General Director of KBMP Daniyar Isakov and Vladimir Popov, the main shareholder of the Central Asian Uranium Company, announced at the Kyrgyz-Russian Interregional Conference. According to them, with the support of…
In January-February Ukraine exported 3.3 million tons of ore via seaports, up by 44.8% YoY. Ferrous metals exports dropped by 3.8%, to 2.7 million tons. The Yuzhniy port exported the most ore – 2.8 million tons, up by 63.8%. Lately iron ore exports via seaports have been decreasing – in three years they fell by…
According to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko’s order, the state enterprise Lvivugol has to receive 200 million UAH from the state budget. The money will be spent to purchase machinery for the Mezhirechenskaya, Lesnaya, Stepnaya and Chervonogradskaya mines. Commissioning of new long faces at these four mines will increase coal output in Q1 by…
Nordgold is not planning to launch the Uryakh project in Irkutsk region in the short-term. According to the company, the resources available are not enough for the construction of a separate mine. Thus, this year the company will be carrying out additional prospecting to increase the Uryakh resource base. Nordgold intended to start gold extraction…