Shelekhov town bailiffs (Irkutsk region) have recovered 35.6 million rubles from an aluminum works. The regional prosecutor has filed a claim against a local plant (Irkutsk Aluminum Works) to recover damages to the soil as a result of the filtrate spilled outside the waste landfill as well as on the forest territory. The Shelekhov town…
The price of one ounce of gold increased by 13.3195 manats or by 0.6% last week in Azerbaijan. Accordingly, the average price of one ounce of gold stood at 2,216.47275 manats. The price of one ounce of silver grew by 0.1779 manats or by 0.7%, to 26.1769 manats. The price of one ounce of platinum…
In 2018 the Amur miners team, developing the Konder platinum deposit in Khabarovsk region, received 467.5 million rubles of revenue, down 6-fold YoY. The net loss was 2.436 billion rubles, down 3.7-fold. Last year the enterprise extracted 238.3 kg of platinum as opposed to 1.275 kg in 2017. The decrease in the output has to…
Chelyabvtormet could not resume its permit for air pollution suspended by the regional environment service. The permit was suspended in November 2018. In December 2018 the regional governor Boris Dubrovsky demanded the casting shop of the company to be closed down because of the extensive air pollution. While the company is permitted to process ferrous…
In H1 Zagorsky Pipe Works intends to reach the debt to EBITDA ration of 1.0. The company’s main customer is Gazprom. At present ZTZ has orders for 2 years. Almost all orders have been concluded with Gazprom. The latest was for the delivery of 500 thousand tons of large diameter pipes for a Sila Sibiri…
Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Works has put into operation a new excavator with improved capacity with the ladle volume of 20 cubic meters. This is the third machine of the kind operating at LGOK. It takes the excavator 3 minutes to fully load a 220-ton BelAZ. The weight of the machine is over 700 tons.…
Severstal and Air Liquide have signed a long-term contract on the delivery of oxygen, nitrogen and argon to Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works. The French company will invest some EUR 50 million in the construction of an air-separating machine, which will improve energy efficiency and decrease environment impact. The capacity of the machine, to be…
The Moscow Exchange switched trade in ordinary shares of pipe producer TMK into a discreet auction mode after the stock jumped by over 20% within 10 minutes, the bourse said in a statement. On March 22, TMK agreed to sell its U.S. subsidiary IPSCO Tubulars to Tenaris for $1.209 billion. (Prime/Ukrainian metal)