Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex intends to mine up to 74 million tons of copper ore per year at the Yoshlik I deposit. The development of the deposit, situated next to the Kalmakir deposit, started in 2017. Art present the company employs 1330 people and 54 quarry dump trucks there. The first copper ore will…
Under the project to develop the Yoshlik I deposit Almalyk Mining and Processing Works has assembled an EKG-15 M excavator and is assembling two more. So far the company has bought 15 excavators, including 13 EKG-15M and 2 EKG-10. The three excavators were received in August. The first was assembled in just 35 days as…
In January-August Almalyk Mining and Processing Works manufactured 11.2 trillion sums worth of products, up by 8.1% from the target. Exports reached $578.4 million. With the help of a development program the company plans to increase its ore output more than 3-fold, to 100 million tons. Non-ferrous and precious metals output will grow 2-fold, and…
Almalyk Iron and Steel Works has started carrying out the second stage of the railroad infrastructure construction to the Kalmakyr mine. Kalmakyr Mine is the largest mining enterprise in the CIS, the base of Uzbek non-ferrous metallurgy. In 2016 the mine design capacity was increased to 30 million tons of ore per year. Under the…
Due to the increase of capacity, Almalyk Mining and Processing Works produced 12782 tons of raw copper in March, up from the target of 11760 tons. Average daily output was 460 tons, more than the target of 379 tons. Anode copper output target was set at 13493 tons, with 450 tons per day, but the…
Almalyk Mining and Processing Works, using new technique, has obtained palladium. Previously the works was obtaining palladium powder. The technique, consisting of 52 steps and lasting for 70 hours, allowed obtaining less than 1 kg of palladium per month. Last year the enterprise started studying obtaining palladium from the electrolyte solution as well as refined…
Korea Institute for Rare Metals (KIRAM) and Almalyk Mining and Processing Works will create a joint scientific center on rare metals and alloys. The corresponding agreement has already been signed. The center will comprise 5 laboratories to obtain refractory metals, in particular, tungsten and molybdenum, as well as alloys using nano- and chemical-metallurgical techniques. (Ukrainian…
Almalyk Mining and Processing Works intends to construct a new copper-processing factory. The project to be commissioned in 2022 will be developed by the Scientific-research and design institute TOMS (Russia). The institute will also help modernize two current copper factories. This year AGMK intends to attract over $180 million of investments. (Ukrainian metal)