The commissioning of the new ladle furnace will allow the ArcelorMittal Temirtau converter shop to reach a higher slab and square billet output. “When the third ladle furnace is commissioned, we will remove all the limitations and will be able to increase steel output to 5 million tons per year by 2020”, the company said.…
There are interruptions in the delivery of Kazakh coal to Kyrgyzstan, Kuban Myrzakanov, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use of the Kyrgyz Republic reported. According to him, there is no official ban on the supply of coal to Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek Heating and Power Plant receives the fuel as usual.…
The state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works ordered SIA Zodiak Plus (Latvia) the delivery of transport and lifting machines valued at 598 thousand euros, or 21.7 million UAH. By February 2018 the company will have supplied three PAUS PFL 20 machines (Germany) with the lifting capacity of 3.3 tons at 199 thousand euros, or…
In January-September Ukrainian ports handled some 6.3 million tons of coal, up by 65.7% YoY. The main coal-handling terminals are located in the port of Yuzhniy. They handled 4.29 million tons of coal, or 68% of the total volume. All the coal-handling ports demonstrated growth, except for Chernomorsk, which showed a sharp fall to 3…
In 2018 Polymetal intends to invest $15 million in the gold-mining project Kapan in Armenia, which corresponds to its 2017 level of investments. According to the company managing director Vitaly Nesis, Polymetal intends to mine 530 thousand tons of ore at Kapan this year and 650 thousand tons next year. The goal of the company…
The nickel deposits of Voronezh region are estimated at 10% of the whole Russian reserves. According to the professor of natural deposits and subsoil use of Voronezh state university Konstantin Savko, there are no other nickel deposits in Russia with such economically positive indexes. Other deposits are more expensive to operate. “For Voronezh region the…
For the first time in its history Rosterminalugol has shipped coal to Portugal. The Panamax-type Sea Trubite received 77.5 thousand tons of power-generating coal. It took 36 hours to load the vessel. Rosterminalugol is constantly increasing the geography of its sales. At present the company ships coal to over 20 countries. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-September Kamchatka yielded 310 kg of platinum, down by 9% YoY, or by 31 kg. The main miner is still Koryakgeoldobycha. The company is developing two platinum sites. In 9 months they have yielded 294 kg of platinum, down by 11% YoY. Geotekhnologia obtained 16 kg of platinum, up by 60% YoY. This year…