Acting CEO of Ferrexpo plc with assets in Ukraine Jim North has been appointed executive director with immediate effect. North joined Ferrexpo in November 2014, serving previously at London Mining plc, Rio Tinto and BHP. Chris Mawe will step down from the office of the financial director, when the transition process is set up. The…
Severniy Mining and Processing Works has invested over 40 million UAH in the installment of 8 thousand energy-saving LED-lamps at the crushing and processing factories. The new lamps are expected to save around 25 million UAH per year. Earlier under the modernization program, SevGOK decided to invest 3.1 billion UAH in 2020 in modernization and…
In June, the miners team Vitim, developing alluvial gold sites in Irkutsk region, extracted 302 kg of the precious metal. Since the start of the washing season, the enterprise has extracted 715 kg of gold, down by 19% YoY. This year Vitim intends to extract 2500 kg of gold. Thus, so far the target has…
In January-June, scrap deliveries to metal companies decreased by 22.5% YoY, to 1.308 million tons. In June, deliveries dropped by 34.4%, to 212 thousand tons. Despite decrease in deliveries, metal companies were provided with scrap at the level of 115.3% in June and 99.5% in H1. As of July 1, scrap stocks amounted to 110-115…
Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) sold 9 more lots of scrap. In total, the enterprise sold 16971 tons valued at 31.047 million UAH. Keramet LLC won 8 out of 9 auctions. Nikotrademet LLC won an auction on 457 tons of scrap valued at 1.92 million UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
In June, Zaporizhstal produced 366.2 thousand tons of pig iron, up by 27.9% YoY. In 6 months output grew by 2%. Steel manufacture in June increased by 1.2%, to 310.7 thousand tons, and rolled metal – by 2.5%, to 259.1 thousand tons. In January-June, Zaporizhstal produced 1.815 million tons of steel and 1.548 million tons…
In January-June, Irkutsk region extracted 10448 kg of gold, up by 8% YoY. Ore gold accounted for 7865 kg (+15) and alluvial gold – 2583 kg (-11%). At present 22 enterprises are extracting gold in the region. This year it is expected to extract 24737 kg of gold, including 15278 kg of ore gold and…
In April, Metinvest B.V. received $742 million of revenue, down by 13.2% MoM. EBITDA dropped by $45 million, to $126 million. In particular, the corrected metal division EBITDA totaled $64 million ($108 million in March) and mining division – $94 million ($100 million). Metal division revenue fell from $672 million to $580 million, while that…