U.K.-based mining giant Evraz, which operates mainly in Russia, plans to raise coal output by 8% to 22.1 million tons and raise sales in Ukraine by 24% to 2.1 million tons in 2016. “Evraz significantly increased supplies to the Ukrainian market over the last three years, reaching a 16% market share in 2016. By using…
Belarus’ industrial output decreased by 1.7% YoY in January-September to 58.136 billion Belarusian rubles (Br), or $30.199 billion at the official rate of the National Bank, the National Statistical Committee (Belstat) reported. Production of coke, oil products and nuclear materials reduced by 9.3% YoY in January-September to 8.351 billion rubles ($4.338 billion). The output of…
In November Ukrainian metal companies will produce 1.9 million tons of steel, 1.9 million tons of pig iron and 1.7 million tons of rolled metal, according to Ukrmetallurgprom forecasts. For October the company predicted steel output on the level of 2 million tons, pig iron – 2 million tons and rolled metal – 1.7 million…
For the past three years Ferrexpo has decreased its pellets supplies to China from 25% to 13%. “We started with 25% sales to China, but once we improved the quality of our pellets, we started selling more to the Western Europe and the North-Eastern Asia”, the investors and communications director Ingrid McMahon reported. According to…
Anglo Asian Mining PLC reported decrease in its gold, silver and copper mining. In Q3 it mined 16.497 thousand ounces of gold at its Gedabek mine (with the forecast of 18.500 thousand ounces) as opposed to 19.375 thousand ounces in Q2 and 18.200 in Q3 2015. This year the company plans to produce 69-71 thousand…
In January-September Yakutugol, a part of Mechel, mined 7.5 million tons of coal, up by 11% YoY. All the group companies have demonstrated increase in output. In particular, Neryugrinsky open-pit coal mine yielded 7 million tons of coal, up by 11% YoY. Kangalassky open-pit mine yielded 145 thousand tons of coal, up by 16%. Jebariki-Khaya…
In Q3 the Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) sold 822 thousand tons of steel seamless pipes, down by 7.7% QoQ, with 2.5 million tons sold in January-September, down by 12% YoY. Welded pipes saw the main sales drop – by 31.6% QoQ, to 208 thousand tons. Seamless pipes sales, on the other hand, went up by…
Novatek-Chelyabinsk has filed a claim to the Arbitrary Court of Chelyabinsk region to recover 430.2 million rubles of gas debts from Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works, a part of Mechel. This is not the first time that Mechel is sued for gas debts: on August 16, Novatek also claimed 431.9 million rubles of gas debts.…