The Lugansk state military-civilian administration has presented to the Ministry of energy and coal industry the projects to open new long faces. In particular, these are the long face 13th Western at the Carbonite mine and the 4th Northern long face at the Gornaya mine of the state enterprise Pervomayskugol. The estimated coal reserves of…
In April direct deliveries of ferrous metals (pig iron, rolled metal, pipes and semi-finished products) to the major domestic automobile holdings (AvtoVAZ, KamAZ, GAS, Zil, Sollers, etc.) via railroad totaled 95.6 thousand tons, up by 4.5% MoM, but down by 1.3% YoY. In March the results were +17.4% and +6.9%, while in February –9.9% and…
In January-April Amur region obtained 5485.6 kg of gold, including 5433 kg of ore gold and 51.6 kg of alluvial gold, down by 11% YoY. In April the output totaled 1243.8 kg, down by 17% YoY. The drop in output has to do with the halt of operations at the Pokrovskoye deposits and the scheduled…
Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works has started the program to replace the locomotive fleet, under which the company has already received 3 new TEM9 locomotives. Such machines have not previously been used by the company. They will replace the outdated TEM1 locomotives. In the next 5 years NLMK railroad fleet will get 27 new locomotives,…
Corum Druzhkovka Machine-Building Works has produced a skip for the Obukhovskaya Mine Group. The volume of the skip body is 25 cubic meters. The machine is able to get over 23 tons of mined materials to the surface in one go. The total length of the machine is 17.6 meters. Previously Corum Druzhkovka has produced…
In 2017 the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works produced 836.1 tons of uranium concentrate and mined 647.3 thousand tons of uranium ore, all down by 16.8% and by 19.9% YoY respectively. In 2011 VostGOK produced 890 tons of concentrate, in 2012 – 960.2 tons, in 2013 – 922.3 tons, in 2014 – 925.7…
Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company will invest about 3.5 billion rubles in development of Gaysky GOK, which exceeds equivalent figures for 2017 by 1 billion (by 34%). Over half the investment budget, about 2.25 billion rubles is planned to be channeled into implementing a project “Underground mine development” on the level of 830-1310 m. “The…
The Cabinet of Ministers asks the Verkhovnaya Rada to cancel the prohibition for women to work in harmful conditions and underground. The corresponding decision was taken at the government meeting on May 10. In particular, it was suggested to eliminated a certain clause in the Labor Code and denounce the International Labor Organization convention on…
