In February the coke manufacture of CherMK will be 61 years old. For the past 10 years the manufacture changed greatly: coke batteries No. 3 and 7 (and the works has 8 in total) have been modernized, 2 shops have been reconstructed. This year will see the reconstruction of the oldest coking battery – No.…
Russia’s Federal Mineral Resources Agency has granted a license to develop the Sukhoi Log gold deposit to SL Zoloto, a joint venture between miner Polyus and state conglomerate Rostec, Polyus said in a statement. Polyus plans to perform additional geological survey and design a feasibility study with the help of international consultants in the next…
Uzbekugol held on February 20 a press conference titled ‘Levels of perspective specialty development’ to inform media on the work done under the Cabinet resolution ‘On additional measures for improvement of coal production supply to the population and budget organizations of the Republic’. Uzbekugol, a part of Uzbekenergo, has been mining and selling coal for…
Ukraine has started an antidumping investigation on the imports of rebars and wire rods from Russia. The corresponding decision was taken by the foreign trade commission of Ukraine on February 13. Russian exporters could register in the investigation as participants by March 20, and by April 18, send comments to the Ministry of economic development…
In January Ukraine retained the last position in the top-10 world steel producers. According to World Steel Association, in January Ukraine produced 2.103 million tons of steel, up by 8.5% YoY. The first position is traditionally occupied by China (67.2 million tons, up by 7.4%), followed by Japan and India (9.002 and 8.4 million tons,…
ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has started the next stage of its project of continuous cast shop No. 2 construction. The company invests $72.4 million into construction. The capacity of the new CCM will total 1.3 million tons per year. The construction of the shop is a part of the steel-smelting complex modernization, which presupposes the complete…
In January Russia produced 3 thousand tons of structures and parts of aluminum. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, this is up by 14.9% YoY, but down by 32.2% MoM.
The Ministry of foreign affairs has prepared a decree that will toughen sanctions against North Korea. In particular, the draft presupposes the prohibition of delivery from North Korea of copper, nickel, silver and zinc and their transportation through the territory of Russia. Coal and iron ore purchases could be excluded from the list, if they…
