In April Ukraine mined 2.706 million tons of coal, down by 22.3% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output decreased by 25%, to 2.309 million tons. In January-April coal output dropped by 3.3%, to 13.66 million tons. In 2016 Ukraine mined 40.864 million tons of coal, up by 2.8%…
In January-April Ukraine increased ferrous metals export revenue by 27.4% YoY, to $2.64 billion. Ferrous metals share was 19.26% of the total exports. According to the State Fiscal Service, metal wares exports increased by 25% YoY, to $262.3 million (1.9% of the total exports). Last year ferrous metals exports revenue decreased by 10.3% YoY, to…
The chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets believes that the tragedy at the Stepnaya mine is the result of negligence of the management and the violation of the safety rules. “For instance, one of the miners could only use the fourth self-rescuer, only after that he was able to help the…
In January-March Ukraine sold 532.95 billion UAH of industrial goods (products and services), up by 34.7% YoY, including 140.84 billion UAH exported, up by 40.3%. According to the State Statistics Service, mining and quarry industry sales increased by 75.4% and of processing – by 28.1%. Metal and metal wares accounted for 16.7% of the sales,…
On May 4, the Novovolynsk miners met the deputies of the people’s deputy Igor Guz to discuss the salary debt problems. According to the chairman of the local miners union Anatoly Mukhomedzhanov, the miners have not received 30% of the February payment, and 100% of March and April salary. So far the debt amounts to…
In January-April Ukraine imported 4832.316 thousand tons of coal valued at $770.936 million, down by 9.7% and up by 66.2% YoY respectively. April saw coal imports at $201.304. According to the State Fiscal Service, Russia supplied $433.931 million worth of coal (56.29% of the total), USA – $159.502 million (20.69%), Australia – $54.702 million (7.1%),…
Group IST of Alexander Nesis, through Powerboom Investments Limited, has increased its share in the gold-mining company Polymetal to 27.13% from 26.87%. Nesis bought 1.895 million shares, or 0.26% of the stake. As the shares are sold at around 10 GBP, the stake purchased can be estimated at 19 million GBP ($25.5 million). Out of…
Evraz dispatched a batch of nodules produced at Kachkanarsk Mining and Processing Works to US Steel Kosice, the biggest steel mill in Slovakia. The nodules fully meet the customer’s requirements in chemical composition and physical properties. The content of iron in the nodules is above 60%; such high strength and solidity characteristics allow producing high…