In January-February, Ukraine exported 10.879 thousand tons of ferrous scrap, down by 4.5% YoY, valued at $2.728 million, down by 13.6% According to the State Tax Service, in January exports totaled 2.865 thousand tons and in February – 8.014 thousand tons. Imports in 2 months decreased by 70%, to 1.601 thousand tons, valued at $1.969…
In January-February, Ukraine exported 233.3 thousand tons of iron ore raw materials, up by 20.7% YoY, valued at $556.4 million, up by 20.1%. According to the State Tax Service, 52.8% of the ore was sold to China. It is followed by Poland (11.5%) and Austria (6.58%). Last year Ukraine increased iron ore raw materials exports…
The metallurgical shop of the Copper Works of Norilsk Nickel has started using a new reagent, which allows increasing extraction by 6.5%. The initiative is expected to save 90 million rubles per year. The shop produces precious metals concentrates containing palladium, platinum, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, silver and gold. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-February, the Yubileyniy Mining and Processing Works of Amur Zoloto extracted 32.9 thousand tons of ore. 20.3 thousand tons of ore, as well as Perevalny GOK’s 56.7 tons of gravity concentrate and 658.3 tons of floatation concentrate were processed. 190.8 kg of gold and 396 kg of silver were manufactured. Perevalny GOK processed 26.8…
In January-February, Amur region yielded 2587.7 kg of gold, down by 3.3% YoY. Only ore gold is being mined now. Petropavlovsk enterprises extracted the most gold. In particular, Albynsky Mine extracted 855 kg, Malomyr – 722 kg, and Pokrovsky – 541 kg. Berezitoviy Mine extracted 300.9 kg of gold, and Priisk Solovievsky – 168.8 kg.…
In December 2019, Russia exported 2.8 thousand tons of titanium, up by 8% MoM and by 10% YoY. Deliveries to the US grew by 30%, to 929 tons, to Germany – from 605 to 621 tons, and to Ukraine – 5-fold, to 327 tons. In 2019, exports totaled 28.5 thousand tons, flat YoY, having increased…
In December 2019, Russia imported 1.1 thousand tons of raw copper, up by 6% MoM and almost 5-fold YoY. Kazakhstan delivered 99.9% of copper. In 2019, imports totaled 5.3 thousand tons, up by 145% YoY, and in monetary terms – by 179%. Price in December 2019 dropped from $14 to $13.7 per kg. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2019, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) allocated more than 8.7 billion rubles for environmental protection, of which more than 5.3 billion rubles were spent on capital construction of new and reconstruction of existing environmental protection facilities. MMK allocated a further 3.4 billion rubles for on-going environmental protection measures including repairs and maintenance of…