In January-February Russia produced 31.01 tons of gold (33.25 tons in 2016), including 23.76 tons of mined gold (24.56 tons), 2.69 tons of by-product gold (2.19 tons) and 4.55 tons of secondary gold (6.49 tons). At the same time silver output totaled 133.91 tons (137.24 tons), including 60.43 tons of mined silver (71.32 tons), 48.05…
Aksu Ferroalloy Works has finished the repair of the No. 43 furnace gas-purifying machine. It took the repairmen 15 days to replace 2688 filter sleeves and repair the main equipment. In May and June AksZF will renovate two more gas-purifying complexes at furnaces No. 42 and 44. (Ukrainian metal)
The office of the Ufaleinickel general manager has passed from Timofey Sasykov to Edward Karpenko, the ex-deputy director. The decision has been taken at the shareholders’ meeting. Since April 1 the company has stopped operating. The resumption of the work is only possible when the nickel prices revive. 1.7 thousand employees have already been dismissed.…
Lysva Iron and Steel Works has confirmed its decision to temporarily halt the investment project. In 2014 the company started the project on the construction of the sheet-rolling complex consisting of two stages. The first part of the first stage saw the assembly of the Printech coating line with the capacity of 110 thousand tons…
Miners of Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Industrial Complex, which have previously refused to return to the surface, have been promised a 20% increase of salary. “The negotiations between administration and the miners are going on. The first stage presupposes the increase of salary by 20%. By the end of summer the wages could increase by…
In April Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works increased concentrate output by 12.6% YoY, to 1.001 million tons. According to the company statement, sinter output decreased by 8.9%, to 124.8 thousand tons. In January-April UGOK produced 4.04 million tons of concentrate and 575.6 thousand tons of sinter, up by 12.1% and by 8.1% YoY respectively. Last…
In January-March Metinvest decreased iron ore concentrate output by 16% YoY, to 6.68 million tons, coal concentrate – by 1%, to 792 thousand tons. At the same time, if compared with Q4 2016, iron ore concentrate remained flat, while coal concentrate increased by 8%. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2016 Seligdar received 3.696 billion rubles of net profits as opposed to the net loss of 1.362 billion rubles in 2015. According to the company statement, its profits before taxation reached 4.632 billion rubles (1.672 billion of losses in 2015), and EBITDA – 5.046 billion rubles, up 1.4-fold. Seligdar increased earnings by 39.1% YoY,…
