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,…
In 2017 Amur Minerals LLC will spend 170 million rubles on prospecting works on the gold-copper-porphyrites deposits of Malmyzh. By 2021 the company intends to construct and put into operation the mining and processing works at Malmyzh with the capacity of 30 million tons of ore per year. The reserves of the site will be…
This year Khabarovsk region intends to produce 19.55 tons of gold and 1.55 tons of platinum. According to the local ministry of natural resources, last year gold output was 19.5 tons. The increase in gold output is expected thanks to the new deposits put into operation. Investments in the industry in 2015-2016 exceeded 16 billion…
The subsidiary of Uralelectromed – “Proizvodstvo polymetallov” (Polymetal manufacture) – has started producing fuel briquettes to be used as fuel for mine furnaces. The prime cost of 1 ton of briquettes of coke breeze and dust is twice as low as that of coke. According to the subsidiary chief engineer Oleg Belyaev, this is a…