A concept for reforming the country’s coal industry until 2020 approved by the government envisages the creation of state-owned enterprise National Coal Company, which will receive 33 state-owned coalmines, Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion said at a first meeting of the interagency working group for settling crisis in coal industry. “It is easy to solve…
Rail transportation of coal exported from Russia in January-June increased by 16.4% YoY, to 94.8 million tons. The railway transport statistics show that the largest coal exports volume was hauled to the Far East regional ports and border crossings points. According to Rosstat, in the first half of 2017 coal production in Russia increased by…
In January-June Polyus increased gold output by 12%, to 938 thousand ounces (29.17 tons), mostly thanks to the growth of manufacture at Olimpiada and Verninskoye deposits. Gold sales increased by 17%, to 983 thousand ounces, including 71 thousand ounces in concentrate from Olimpiada. Sales revenue reached $1.217 billion, up by 14%, at the average price…
In January-July the St. Petersburg subsidiary of the First Cargo Company transported 171.3 thousand tons of scrap, up 1.5-fold YoY. The company throughput in the segment increased by 60%, to 97.8 million ton-km. “The increase of scrap transportation via Oktyabrskaya railroad has to do with the high demand for scrap on behalf of Severstal and…
ArcelorMittal Temirtau has ordered the services of mining coal and loading it into railroad cars, but has not paid the contractor over 36 million tenge. The company filed a complaint and the court ordered AMT to fulfill its contract obligations. (Ukrainian metal)
Oskol Electrometallurgical Works is going on with its large-scale investment project – the construction of the reducing-sizing mill in its bar-rolling shop No. 2. Investments total 800 million rubles, and the output of rolled metal will as the result of the modernization increase by 67 thousand tons per year. The main and auxiliary machinery has…
In January-July Azovstal Iron and Steel Works produced 2.15 million tons of rolled metal, up by 11.5% YoY. According to the company statement, steel output increased by 14%, to 2.436 million tons, pig iron – by 17%, to 2.153 million tons. In July Azovstal produced 251 thousand tons of rolled metal, 270 thousand tons of…
Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine is operating 2 blast furnaces but is preparing the third one for operation. According to the company statement, the BF No. 1M was blown on July 22, and it was the only BF to produce pig iron in July. BF No. 9 was blown on July 23, and started producing…
