In 2017 Petropavlovsk Plc increased gold output by 9.8% YoY, to 439.6 thousand ounces (13.7 tons), while the plan was 420-460 thousand ounces. The prime cost of the gold manufacture last year was over $700 per ounce, higher than the expected range of $600-700 per ounce. Gold sales totaled 439.8 thousand ounces at the average…
The Ministry of Finances has prepared a draft bill to allow obtaining alluvial gold. When the bill is passed, the population will be able to freely extract alluvial gold on the riverbanks not owned by any company. But a license from the Ministry of Finances will be required for such an activity. The gold obtained…
In 2017 the state company Ukrzaliznytsia supplied 48.5 thousand tons of metal scrap to Interpipe. “Ukrzaliznytsia’s entering the scrap market was a very important and long-awaited move. They sold 157.2 thousand tons of ferrous metals scrap, and we bought 48.5 thousand tons from them”, Interpipe CFO Denis Morozov said. According to him, those companies that…
The arbitrary court of the Novosibirsk region has declared the Mineral Group LLC bankrupt. The company intended to construct a complex to mine and process titanium-zirconium ores. The claim to the company was submitted by Story-ka LLC because of the debt of 3.6 million rubles. The project to construct the complex valued at 1.25 billion…
Within the project to construct the press-forging complex Zlatoust Electrometallurgical Works has started assembling machinery. In particular, the company assembles the press frame. The machinery is produced by Danieli and assembled by the contractor company Prokatmontazh. The weight of the press frame is 64 tons. To assemble it a Grove automobile crane with the lifting…
In 2017 the throughput of the NMTP Group totaled 143517 thousand tons. In particular, coal throughput grew by 14.1%, or by 247 thousand tons YoY, to 1994 thousand tons. Iron ore throughput dropped by 7.9%, or by 235 thousand tons, to 2752 thousand tons, mostly because of the growth of domestic consumption, decrease of exports…
In 2017 Krasniy Octyabr Iron and Steel Works was busy modernizing its thermal and treatment machinery. At the same time the company started manufacturing new types of products. In particular, last year Krasniy Octyabr started producing cold-rolled sheet with the thickness of 0.8-3.5 mm and hot-rolled sheet of corrosion-resistant steel and heat-resistant chrome-nickel alloys. For…
St Petersburg hosted a meeting of the Gazprom chairman Alexei Miller and ChTPZ chairman Andrei Komarov. The parties discussed issues of pipe deliveries. Issues of price formation for 2018 under new market conditions have also been reviewed. In 2017 ChTPZ supplied over 560 thousand tons of pipes for the construction of Nord Stream-2 and Sila…