In 2017 Rusal produced 3.707 million tons of aluminum, up by 0.6% YoY. In Q4 2017 output grew by 1.4% QoQ, to 944 thousand tons. Aluminum sales in 12 months increased by 3.6%, to 3.955 million tons, and in Q4 2017 by 3.3% QoQ, to 1 million tons. Average sale price was $2105 per ton,…
In 2018 Rusolovo intends to mine 1600 tons of tin concentrate, up by 59% YoY. This corresponds to some 286 thousand tons of ore, up by 39% YoY. Last year Rusolovo mined 206.4 thousand tons of ore, with 131.8 thousand tons at Pravourmiyskoye LLC and 76.4 thousand tons at Tin Ore Company LLC. (Ukrainian metal)
This year the gold-extracting company Pavlik intends to obtain some 7 tons of gold, up by 7.7% YoY. “In the first year of operation we mined around 1 ton of gold. In 2016 we produced 4 times as much, and last year we reached 6.5 tons”, the company CEO Vasiliy Makarov said. “This allowed us…
This year Yakutia will increase silver output 2.5-fold YoY, to 80 tons. In 2017 silver output exceeded the target by 26.7%. Last year gold-extracting companies obtained 24.8 tons, up by 2.8% YoY. Ore gold mining grew by 10.3%, to 14.6 tons, while that of alluvial decreased by 6.3%, to 10.2 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In March Sibirsky Mining and Metallurgical Alliance (SiGma) will put into operation the first stage of Ozernovsky Mining and Metallurgical Works in Kamchatka. The first line will have the capacity of 100 thousand tons of ore (2 tons of gold) per year. The first year of operation will see some 1-1.5 tons of gold. The…
In 2017 Zagorsky Pipe Works produced 146 thousand tons of pipes, up 4-fold YoY. Recently ZTZ has agreed with Severstal to buy 180 thousand tons of rolled metal for pipe manufacture. According to the company, pipe demand this year will range between 2.2 and 2.3 million tons, and in 2019 it will reach 2.5 million…
NLMK has commissioned a new crusher to process 12 thousand tons of wooden packaging a year. Investments in the project totaled 46 million rubles. Now the company will be able to process all its wood waste, while previously it used to crush only 1%. After crushing the wood splints will be used as raw materials…
Gold output of GV Gold rose by 37% YoY, to 224,500 ounces in 2017, or 5% above the plan due to the launch of the Drazhnoye and Ugakhan deposits and a new dredging unit at the Bolshoi Kuranakh mine, the company said in a statement on February 5. The capacity of company’s processing facilities increased…