In January-October Azerbaijan produced 5107.5 kg of gold, up 3.2-fold YoY. According to the State Statistics Committee, in October gold output totaled 672.9 kg. In 2016 Azerbaijan obtained 1894.1 kg of gold, down by 15%. (Ukrainian metal)
AzerGold has signed an agreement with Enterprise Solutions Consulting Group LLC for the creation of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The cost of the contract is 180.76 million mantas. AzerGold was created on February 11, 2015. It is developing Garadag, Chovdar, Geydag, Dagkesemen, Kokhnemeden iron- and gold-bearing sites as well as the Kyuryakchay basin.…
The environment prosecutors filed a suit to recover 47 million rubles from Irkutsk Aluminum Works for the damage done to the environment when using the industrial and household waste landfill. According to the prosecutors the company has violated the rules to manage wastes, resulting in the damage to the environment. Thus, the soil and trees…
In January-September the net profit of VSMPO-Avisma dropped by 30% YoY, or by 6 billion rubles, to 15.09 billion rubles. Revenues decreased by 775 million rubles, to 55.1 billion rubles. Fixed liabilities increased from 39.1 billion rubles to 64.7 billion rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
The assembly of a huge ball mill has started in the rotary shop of Chelyabinsk Zinc Works. The 70-ton machine is used for dry milling of zinc-containing calcined rotary oxide and turning it into a homogeneous product. According to the company CEO Pavel Izbrecht, in 2018 ChTZ will spend some 400 million rubles on environment…
Karabashmed will assemble 4 new bucket cranes with the lifting capacity of 16 tons in its metallurgical shop. The new lifting machinery will decrease copper concentrate unloading time, increase the volumes of received concentrate and create conditions to improve output. The assembly of the cranes is scheduled for late December. As the result of the…
Kyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant has finished the assembly of two additional rows of electrolysis baths within the program to increase copper cathode capacities. Each row includes 40 ferroconcrete baths. The project will increase cathode output by 16.7%, to 140 thousand tons per year. Investments in the modernization are estimated at 420 million rubles. (Ukrainian metal)
Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has completed the first stage of the coking battery No. 4 reconstruction – the foundation of the first plate. The total cost of the project is some 6 billion rubles. “This is a unique event for our city, our country and even for the whole CIS. Reconstruction of such a…