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…
Since the start of the alluvial gold season HERGU has obtained 247 kg of the precious metal, down by 11% YoY. As of early August 2016, the company has obtained 278 kg of gold from its sites, with the same result in 2015. This year HERGU intends to get 700 kg of gold, down by…
Severstal, one of the world’s leading steel and steel-related mining companies, has created a hybrid Data Lake as part of its digital strategy to secure the company’s competitive advantages in the long-term. The infrastructure is designed to store company functional data files for subsequent processing and use in Severstal’s data analysis, machine learning and artificial…
China National Gold Group (China Gold) is interested in Musa Bazhayev’s Russian Platinum’s projects in Russia and Kyrgyzstan with investments of up to $4.6 billion. These are the Chernogorskoye and Norilsk-1 polymetallic fields on the Taimyr Peninsula and the Jerooy gold deposit in Kyrgyzstan. Russian Platinum confirmed talks with China Gold, but said it was…