Neryungri-Metallik LLC, a part of Nordgold, in 2019 produced 8.2 tons of refined gold at its Gross mine in Yakutia. The output target was exceeded by 36%. In early 2019, the company expected to produce 5.9 tons of gold last year. The increase is due to the expansion of the factory capacities from 12 million…
Mechel has addressed its main bank-creditors (VTB and Gazprombank) asking them to prolong the postponement to pay debts until the debt is restructured. As of late 2019, the volume of loan debt exceeded 370 billion rubles. Gazprombank has agreed to postpone the payment for a month, while VTB has not decided yet. In 2017, Mechel…
In January-February, the share of metal and wares in the overall exports totaled 8.6%, down from 9.4% last year. Far foreign countries accounted for 7.6% (9% in January-February 2019), while CIS – 16.8% (12.5%). The exports of pig iron decreased by 57%, aluminum – by 53.5%, ferroalloys – by 20%, flat iron and unalloyed steel…
International rating agency Moody’s has worsened its outlook for Russia’s steel sector to negative from stable. The agency attributed the move to an anticipated decline in demand for steel amid low oil prices and a weak industrial PMI. Moody’s expects that demand for steel will fall by 3-7% this year compared with a previous projection…
In March, deliveries of scrap to metal companies reached 260-270 thousand tons, and in Q1 – 660-680 thousand tons. This allowed providing companies with scrap at the level of 110-113%. Scrap stocks are now high – 130-135 thousand tons. According to UAVtormet president Vladimir Bubley, 2020 will see decrease in scrap procurement by 12-15% in…
In January, Russia imported 61.9 tons of raw tin, down by 44% MoM and by 26% YoY. Price remained unchanged – $18.4 per kg. Deliveries from Belgium grew 2-fold, to 40 tons, while from Bolivia dropped 2-fold, to 20.5 tons. Malaysia and Peru stopped supplying tin to Russia. In 2019, imports totaled 1.2 thousand tons,…
In 2019, Russia extracted 367.952 tons of gold, up by 12% YoY. 286.563 tons accounted for extracted gold, up by 9.5%. Auxiliary gold totaled 18.134 tons, up by 17.4%. And the rest accounted for gold-containing concentrates and secondary precious metal. Polyus provided almost a quarter of all ore gold – 88.36 tons, up by 16.4%.…
In 2019, gold-extracting company Priisk Dambuki received 838.7 million rubles of revenue, down by 3.3% YoY. Sales profit grew by 0.6%, to 157.7 million rubles. Net profit increased to 70 million rubles from 45.2 million rubles. (Ukrainian metal)