Norilsk Nickel shareholders at the annual meeting have set financial dividends for 2017 in the amount of 607.98 rubles per share, or 96.2 billion rubles total. Taking into account the interim dividends for H1 2017 ($600 million), the total amount will reach $2.162 billion. Last year the company net profit dropped by 16%, to $2.123…
Yakutia intends to create a priority development area on the territory of Ust-Tanskiy, Oimyakonsky and Tomponsky districts. The project will attract over 27 billion rubles of private investments and create some 1700 jobs. 4 anchor investors plan to mine and process tin ore, as well as precious metals ore and sands. The new PDA could…
Rise LLC, which develops alluvial gold deposits in Magadan region, has already obtained 150 kg of precious metal since the start of the washing season. This year operations started in the first half of May. The company is operating at two sites on the Pravaya Vizualnaya brook and the Nelgyu River. This season it is…
Rotek has started assembling the transformation substation at the Kekura gold deposits in Chukotka Autonomous District ahead of schedule. The commissioning of the power machinery is scheduled for late 2018. The transformer substation will be providing the gold-extracting enterprise with electricity for 30 years. Kekura is developed by a Highland Gold subsidiary. (Ukrainian metal)
In May Russia produced 6.23 million tons of steel, up by 6% YoY (5.877 million tons), while in April the output totaled 6.03 million tons. In January-May steel output grew by 2% YoY, to 30.027 million tons. Ukraine increased steel manufacture by 2.9% YoY, to 1.695 million tons, while in April it produced 1.721 million…
Proizvodstvo polymetallov (Polymetal manufacture), the subsidiary of Uralelectromed, has commissioned the coke deck of the railroad shop after repair. Its length is 113 meters and height – 8 meters. The coke deck is an important transportation unit of the manufacture. The cost of the project is 4 million rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
The miners team Aleksandrovskaya-1 LLC, which extracts alluvial gold in Amur region, has already obtained 60 kg of gold this year. The company is operating at two deposits – Djalon and Djuvaskit. This year the team plans to obtain 180 kg of alluvial gold, up by 75% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has started assembling metal structures, which will later serve as the basis for the new Luhr Filter filtering machinery to purify gases of the Maerz furnace. The new machine will trap both solid and gaseous impurities. The gas-purification rate will reach 99.9%. The commissioning of the filter is scheduled for this…
