Russia: Kamchatka gold output up in 2020

In 2020, Kamchatka Autonomous District increased gold output by 9% YoY, to 6863 kg. 6 enterprises mined gold last year. In particular, the Trevozhnoye Zarevo, developing the Asachinskoye deposit, increased output by 8%, to 1402 kg, and Kamchatskoye Zoloto produced 1049 kg, up by 68%. The output of SiGMA at the Ozernovskoye deposit amounted to…

Ukraine: 7 gold deposits accounted for

Ukraine now has 7 gold ore deposits, 5 of which have special allowances. “The Muzhiyevskoye deposit is already yielding gold”, the State Service of Geology and Subsoil chairman Roman Opimakh has declared. Last year, 8 electronic auctions were announced with 70 lots. 58 special allowances were sold for over 826 million UAH. This year, over…

Ukraine: Azovstal invests 50 million UAH in CCM modernization

Azovstal Iron and Steel Works has invested over 50 million UAH in the Primetals system to control metal level in the continuous casting machines crystallizers. “We constantly modernize the technological processes control and automation systems, which allows receiving high-quality products according to the customers’ requirements”, the company CEO Enver Tskitishvili said. (Ukrainian metal)

Kazakhstan: Kazakhmys output up in 2020

In 2020, Kazakhmys Corporation extracted 29.356 million tons of ore, up by 0.76% from the target (30.969 million tons in 2019). Average copper content was 1.0% with the target of 0.94%. Factories processed 31.3 million tons of ore. Last year, Kazakhmys enterprises produced 258.36 thousand tons of cathode copper, up by 5.06% YoY and by…