In November, salaries in metal and mining industry decreased. By-product coke plants experienced the largest drop – by 10.9%, to 17.3 thousand UAH. In November, average salaries were as follows: at mining enterprises – 17.4 thousand UAH (-4.9%), at pipe enterprises – 13.2 thousand UAH (-3.5%), at ferrous metallurgy enterprises – 16.7 thousand UAH (-5.4%)…
Azovstal has commissioned a new blast furnace slag car in the metal slag processing shop. Investments in the purchase amounted to 4.6 million UAH. The volume of the car is 16.5 cubic meters and weight – 65 tons. The temperature of hot slag is 1300-1400 degrees C, which results in a periodical need to replace…
Kazatomprom and CGN Mining have announced the sale by the former of 49% in the Ortalyk Mining Enterprise. Ortalyk controls the development of the Mynkuduk and Zhalpak uranium deposits. The capacity of Mynkuduk is 2 thousand tons of uranium per year and the enterprise has already reached its design capacity. The capacity of Zhalpak is…
Maxiprom Group LLC has constructed a factory at Marganets Mining and Processing Works. The factory will process up to 5 million tons of manganese ore slag into 1 million tons of concentrate per year. The construction lasted for 2 years. (Ukrainian metal)
On December 28, a cave-in occurred at the Zolotoye mine (Pervomayskugol) in Lugansk region. The accident happened at the depth of 687 meters. 2 miners were trapped. One was saved at once, while the other was later found dead. (Ukrainian metal)
Daksib LLC, developing the alluvial gold sites in Irkutsk region, has extracted 109.5 kg of gold, up by 46% YoY. The annual target has been exceeded 2-fold. Last year, the company extracted 75 kg of gold. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-November, ferroalloys manufacture in Ukraine decreased by 29.5% YoY, to 694.1 thousand tons. According to the Ukrainian Association of Ferroalloys Producers, Zaporozhye and Nikopol Ferroalloys Plants (ZZF and NZF) decreased silicomanganese output by 31.2%, to 522.01 thousand tons. Ferromanganese and other ferroalloys manufacture at ZZF, NZF and Kramatorsk Ferroalloys Plant (KFZ) fell by 18.5%,…
In January-September, galvanized rolled metal consumption decreased by 11%, to 227 thousand tons. Imports fell by 16.8%, to 79 thousand tons, while consumption of domestic products (minus exports) dropped by 6.9%, to 149 thousand tons. In Q3, consumption decreased by 10%, to 96 thousand tons, and imports – by 3%, to 35 thousand tons, while…
