In 2019 Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works considerably decreased the volume of energy resources purchases. Thus, the company was able to save 36.6 million kW-h of electricity, 350 thousand tons of fuel and 16 million cubic meters of oxygen. The decrease is due to reconstruction of some of CherMK capacities. Last year electricity consumption totaled…
In 2019 Petropavlovsk PLC produced 517.3 thousand ounces of gold, up by 42.2% YoY. The growth is due to the increase of gold content in ore at Albyn and Malomyr mines. This year the company intends to produce 620 to 720 thousand ounces of gold. Last year Petropavlovsk sold 514 thousand ounces of gold, up…
In 2019 Sakhalin increased coal output by 10.2% YoY, to 11.9 million tons. The annual target – 11.4 million tons – was exceeded by 4.2%. The Eastern Mining Company LLC provided the most coal volumes – 10 million tons. Sales outside the region totaled 11.5 million tons, including 126 thousand tons to the other Russian…
In January-November 2019 Russia produced 903.72 tons of silver, down by 12.7%, including 311.78 tons of by-product silver and 151.03 tons of secondary silver. The Far East accounts for 45% of all silver production – 415.58 tons, down by 3.6%. The Sibir Federal District yielded 13.39 tons, down by 18.5%, Ural – 10.19 tons, up…
In January-November 2019 Russia produced 337.26 tons of gold, up by 16.2% YoY. In particular, extracted gold accounted for 266.06 tons, up by 9.1%, secondary gold – 53.6 tons, up by 67.6%, and by-product gold – 17.6 tons, up by 22%. The Far Eastern Federal District accounted for some 50% of gold, having extracted 170.29…
In 2019 Magadan region yielded 46.356 tons of gold, up by 25.4% YoY, and 612.671 tons of silver, down by 5.19%. The gold target output was set at 42.7 tons. Ore gold manufacture grew by 47.18%, to 27.948 tons, and alluvial – by 2.39%, to 18.99 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2019 Kuzbass extracted 250.1 million tons of coal, down by 2% YoY. Coking coal accounted for 75.6 million tons, up from 73.2 million tons. In particular, 27 million tons were extracted at pits (25 million tons in 2018), and 48.6 million tons at mines (48.2 million tons). (Ukrainian metal)
In November 2019 Russia exported 13.3 thousand tons of copper rolled wire, up by 6% MoM, but down by 9% YoY. Deliveries to Kuwait grew by 27%, to 6.8 thousand tons, and to Egypt – from 2.8 thousand tons to 2.9 thousand tons. At the same time sales to Belarus dropped from 1.2 thousand tons…
