In January-September Irkutsk region extracted 19,030 kg of gold, up by 0.6% YoY. 10,526 kg accounted for ore gold and 8,505 – for alluvial gold. The largest output in 9 months among ore gold extractors was achieved by Polyus Verninskoye – 5,803 kg, followed by Vysochaishiy with 2,231 kg and Ugakhan with 1,610 kg. Lenzoloto…
IRC Ltd, operating the Kimkano-Sutarsky Mining and Processing Works in the Jewish Autonomous District, has increased the manufacturing capacities to 95%. In August the operation of the GOK was affected by heavy rains. Now that the weather has stabilized, IRC has resumed work to prepare the enterprise for winter and increase its capacity. In H1…
TMK has supplied the second batch of casing pipes with the size of 244.45×11.99 mm of the L80 strength group and with TMK UP PF joints to Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd for the oil and gas project Sakhalin-2. The pipes were produced at Volzhsky Pipe Works. The order has been fulfilled under a long-term…
Ingulets Mining and Processing Works will be extracting magnesian slate from its iron ore waste at the Inguletskoye deposit of ferrous slates. The slate extracted will be sold without additional processing. Thus the company intends to free some 2.68 ha of tailings. Magnesian slate reserves are estimated at 20-22 million tons. InGOK can operate at…
A recently created Ukrainian Mining Company LLC intends to mine iron ore at the Severniy quarry of the Saksaganskoye deposit in Krivoy Rog, used to be developed by Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. Terex excavators with the ladles of 7 cubic meters (or their analogues) and 55-ton BelAZ trucks (or their analogues) will be…
Russia’s aluminum exports increased by 11.3% YoY, to 2.116 million tons in January-August, the Federal Customs Service said. In monetary terms, aluminum exports rose by 8.3%, to $3.586 billion in the period. Copper exports remained flat at 441,400 tons worth $2.659 billion, down by 8.2%. Nickel exports went down by 5.8%, to 85,100 tons with…
In January-September Ferrexpo, controlling Poltava and Yeristovo Mining and Processing Works, increased combined pellets output by 1.7% YoY, to 7.891 million tons. The manufacture of 65% iron content pellets totaled 7.580 million tons, up by 4.2%, and 62% iron content – 310.99 thousand tons, down by 35.8%. The output of 65% iron content pellets of…
Energomashspetsstal has won a tender and concluded a contract to produce 2 unique bulk rolls weighing 207 tons each to R&MS Solutionpartner GmbH (Luxembourg). Supporting rolls will be used at the hot-rolling plate mill-5000. EMSS competitors were German and Japanese manufacturers of rolls. According to the agreement each roll will be manufactured of an ingot…