A company called Hun-Banyaszat Kutatasi, Fejlesztesi es Innovacios Kft. made some calculations and plans regarding opening a mine and sent them to the Hungarian Mining and Geological Service at the end of last October. This would be a new business venture, as the Hungarian company was registered in 2018, and originally had iron ore mining…
Ranked fifth, Uzbekistan retained its position among the world’s top five uranium producers in 2020, according to a report by the World Nuclear Association (WNA). The country extracted 3,500 tons of uranium last year, the same as in 2019. Uzbekistan currently does not use uranium within the country, but exports it abroad. Kazakhstan was a…
Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works, situated in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the terrorist organization created and supported by Russia, has resumed operation. The enterprise has been idle for 8 months. According to sources, EMZ plans to reach its design capacity, that is 3 million tons of steel per year. At present only one converter…
In January-August, Ukrainian metal companies decreased natural gas consumption by 6.1% YoY, to 1.31 billion cubic meters. Electricity consumption grew by 4.4%, to 7.67 billion kW-h. Last year, gas consumption went up by 4.4%, to 1.88 billion cubic meters, while electricity consumption dropped by 0.6%, to 11.1 billion kW-h. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-June, Russia produced 141.422 tons of gold (extracted, mined and received from scrap and waste processing as well as in concentrate), down by 3.5% YoY. Overall primary gold output (from mineral materials) dropped by 5.34%, to 125.942 tons. In particular, extracted gold output decreased by 3.2%, to 112.612 tons, by-products manufacture – by 10.36%,…
The state enterprise Mine named after Surgay has ordered Metkripservis Ltd LLC delivery of arched anchoring valued at 17.7 million UAH. Until the end of 2022, the company has to supply 690 units of various anchoring. The manufacturer has not been revealed. The goods will be paid for within 6 months upon delivery. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-August, Ukraine exported 2.17 million tons of pig iron, up by 6% YoY, valued at $1.13 billion, up by 93.7%. The main customers were the USA (57.07% in monetary terms), Italy (20.38%) and Turkey (10.89%). Imports amounted to 149 tons valued at $163 thousand. In August, Ukraine exported 351.1 thousand tons of pig iron,…
Gold production in Russia may increase by 0.7% YoY, to 366 tons in 2021, and silver production may amount to 1,450 tons, Sergei Kashuba, chairman of the Union of Gold Producers of Russia, has announced. “Production of primary gold will increase by about 1%, to 338 tons, plus secondary production, according to our expert estimate,…
