In January-June NLMK produced 6.49 million tons of steel, up by 3% YoY. Pig iron output totaled 6.15 million tons, up by 7%. Galvanized rolled metal manufacture grew by 19%, to 424 thousand tons. Transformer steel output reached 54 thousand tons, up by 28%. In June the 2000-mill set a daily output record of 20.78…
In May Turkey imported 83 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 89.2% YoY. In January-May imports reached 644 thousand tons, up by 113.5%. Russia supplied 418 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 178.53% YoY and Ukraine – 154 thousand tons, up by 58.45%. Deliveries from Brazil totaled 53 thousand tons, up by 525.43%.…
Severstal has suspended deliveries of metal to Iran this year without stating terms or reasons. According to the company statement, earlier in the year it delivered inconsiderable volumes of metal to Iran. The company did not name the precise volume of deliveries, or the time frame of the suspension, and did not comment on the…
Belarusian specialists are busy doing geological prospecting work for the sake of gold extraction in Sudan, Belarusian Deputy Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Andrei Khmel reported on July 19. The agreement on inviting Belarusian specialists to search for and extract gold in Sudan was reached as Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visited the country. “A…
Results of the work to find gold, copper, platinum, and uranium ore in Belarus were revealed by Vasily Kolb, Deputy Head of the Central Office for Natural Resources, Head of the Geology Office of the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Ministry, at a press conference on July 19. According to the source, work to…
Prices of precious metals in Azerbaijan continued their decline on July 19, which they started on July 16, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The price of gold decreased by 4.1 manats, to 2082.0325 manats per ounce on July 19, compared to the price on July 18. The price of silver decreased…
Belenergomash-BZEM LLC has concluded a contract for the manufacture of 2200 tons of metal structures for the Nitric Acid Works in the city of Navoi (Uzbekistan). The order comprises main and supplementary metal structures, roof and wall sandwich-panels, doors, windows, water pipeline system, etc. The company has already finished 3D-modelling and designing the structures, and…
Omsuchanskaya gold-extracting factory has processed 20 million tons of ore and commissioned its second thickener. Omsuchanskaya Factory is the main processing center of the Dukat hub of Serebro Magadana, a part of Polymetal. In addition to the Dukat ore the factory processes ore from the Galtssovoye, Lunnoye and Verkneye Menkeche deposits. In 16 years of…