In January-February, Magadan region extracted 4.7 tons of gold, up by 0.4 tons YoY. Silver output amounted to 92.2 tons. Alluvial season will begin in late April. Tenkinskiy city district yielded the most gold – 3.4 tons, while Omsukchansk district – 86.5 tons of silver. (Ukrainian metal)
Since the start of the year Ukrzaliznytsia has successfully carried out 27 auctions in the Prozorro.Sales system to sell ferrous scrap. In particular, on March 9-11 the company held 16 auctions selling 85.6 thousand tons of scrap for 569.1 million UAH. Last year, the company sold 145 thousand tons of scrap for 567 million UAH.…
In 2020, Metinvest enterprises paid 22.1 billion UAH of taxes to budgets of all levels, up by 5% YoY. This equals almost half of what all companies in Ukraine pay to the budget in a month. “Thanks to this, the government was able to survive the first and the most difficult year of the coronacrisis.…
In January-February, Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works increased iron ore concentrate manufacture by 4.7% YoY, to 2.007 million tons. In February, UGOK produced 959.6 thousand tons of concentrate, up by 3.2%. In January, output grew by 6.2%, to 1047.4 thousand tons of concentrate. Sinter is no longer produced. (Ukrainian metal)
In January-February, metal companies increased consumption of natural gas and electricity. In particular, consumption of the natural gas grew by 6.5% YoY, to 330 million cubic meters. Metal companies also used 1920 million kW-h of electricity, up by 4.9%. (Ukrainian metal)
Energomashspetsstal is preparing to ship the first hot metal ladle-car to Azovstal Iron and Steel Works. According to a contract signed in 2020, EMSS will produce 9 such cars. The car is intended for transportation of a ladle with hot metal from the blast furnace shop to the converter shop. The volume of the ladle…
In January-February, Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works increased rolled metal output by 19% YoY, to 660 thousand tons. Steel manufacture grew by 3.7%, to 700 thousand tons, pig iron – by 15.2%, to 765 thousand tons, and sinter – by 14.3%, to 2.152 million tons. In February, the company produced 300 thousand tons of…
In February, Ukraine exported 63.9 thousand tons of pipes, up 2.1-fold YoY. According to the State Customs Service, revenue grew by 72.2%, to $71.5 million. In January-February, exports increased by 14.6%, to 70.3 thousand tons valued at $79.4 million, up by 0.5%. Seamless pipes exports accounted for 45.5 thousand tons at $61 million. Ukraine also…