The methane blast at the Zapolyarny copper and nickel mine of Norilsk Nickel, which killed four miners, will not hurt production plans of the Polar Division of the company, Sergei Gradyushko, a deputy CEO for labor protection and security of the division, reported. “I think that after all the measures are completed, work will be…
Terrorists from the occupies territories of Donetsk region, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, created and supported by Russia, have sent all the employees of Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works into a forced 2-months vacation. According to the press service of the Chief Intelligence Service, the situation at the terrorists-occupied lands is worsening. In particular, manufacturing…
In January-June Ukraine exported 19.303 million tons of iron ore and concentrate valued at $1.362 billion. According to the State Fiscal Service, iron ore share in the total exports was 6.6%. China imported $388.128 million worth of iron ore and concentrate (28.5%), Poland – $145.155 million (10.6%), the Czech Republic – $145.109 million (10.6%). Other…
In October the joint-stock company Pavlik intends to confirm the availability of 90 tons of additional gold reserves at its deposits in Magadan region. At present the company deposits stand at 154 tons of gold. Thus, they will increase to 244 tons. The gold-mining combine at the Pavlik deposits was put into operation in August…
Stocks of anthracite coal at Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) grew by 3% from June 27 to July 5, to 698,300 tons, according to the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry’s press service. At the same time, the stocks of gas coal decreased by 3.6% from 1.824 million tons to 1.759 million tons. In general,…
In June, according to the railroad statistics, direct deliveries of rolled steel to construction companies totaled 17.7 thousand tons, down by 37.2% MoM and by 3.4% YoY. In May the results were up by 8.8% MoM and down by 8.7% YoY, in April – up by 9.6% and down by 8.8% respectively. In January-June construction…
NLMK has completed its project begun in 2015 on the replacement of dust-gas filtering equipment at its refractory shop. As the result dust emissions have decreased by 18%, and the dust captured is returned to the manufacturing process as raw materials. The tests of the new electric filters have been carried out at the lime…
Metalloinvest and KamAZ have negotiated the conditions of the three-year agreement on prices for high-quality rolled metal (SBQ) produced by Oskol Electrometallurgical Works (OEMK), which will come into effect on January 1, 2018. The discussion was held during the visit of the first deputy CEO, commercial director of Metalloinvest Nazim Efendiyev to KamAZ, where he…