After a 6-months idleness Metal-group has resumed iron ore extraction at its Yakovlevsky mine in Belgorod region. By March almost all employees have to be engaged in the work. Annual ore output is expected to increase to 100 thousand tons. Since February 1, the operation started in limited volume, with 55% employees working. (Ukrainian metal)
The state enterprise Krasnoarmeyskugol (Donetsk region) ordered the Promtorg Company LLC filtering equipment valued at 199835 UAH. As the value was below 200 thousand UAH the enterprise didn’t have to hold a tender. By the end of 2016 the company has to supply 24 oxygen self-rescuers at 8326 UAH per unit. On the market they…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is pondering the possibility of buying anthracite coal from other countries, in particular from South Africa, China or Australia. “We will have a state stock. Money is given to create the state stocks of anthracite coal. But the options are few: South Africa, Australia and China”, the minister of…
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree confirming the victory of a joint venture between miner Polyus and state conglomerate Rostec in an auction for Russia’s biggest gold deposit Sukhoi Log with a 9.4 million-ruble bid, according to a document released on the government Web site. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi said…
The stainless steel of the Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works, a part of Mechel, will be used to construct a complex of uranium-plutonium fuel manufacture. The complex is being constructed under the Proryv (Breakthrough) project of the Rosatom state corporation on the site of the Siberian Chemical Works in Tomsk region. ChMK will supply stainless…
Chelyabinsk Zinc Works, a part of UMMC, carries on its large-scale technical modernization of the indium manufacture. According to the company spokesperson Natalia Vasilyeva, the works is the largest manufacturer of IN-00 indium with 99.999% metal content in the CIS-countries. The reconstruction of the hydrometallurgical shop saw the assembly of the new filter-press of FIL-TEC.…
In January Ferrexpo produced 900 thousand tons of pellets, down by 11.8% YoY. Concentrate output dropped by 15.9% YoY, to 1.051 million tons. In 2016 Ferrexpo decreased pellets output of its own raw materials by 1.7% YoY, to 11.07 million tons, of purchased raw materials – by 68%, to 129.2 thousand tons. All this resulted…
In 2016 coalmining enterprises of the Sakhalin region yielded around 7 million tons of coal, up by 27% YoY. Vostochnaya Mining Company (VGK) mined the most – 4 million tons (3.7 million tons in 2015). 4.65 million tons of coal was exported to the Asian-Pacific countries, up by 16% YoY. South Korea imported 2 million…