In January-February Kazakhstan mined 5.884 million tons of iron ore, up by 14.4% YoY. According to the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of the national economy, copper ore output totaled 14.547 million tons, up by 54% YoY, and chrome concentrate – 668.3 thousand tons, up by 15%. (Ukrainian metal)
The Kremlin never recommended Metalloinvest and Severstal to start supplying iron ore to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, the Russian president spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared. At the same time, according to him, Russia does everything possible to “ease the situation” on Donbass. Earlier mass media reported on the readiness of the Russian metal…
The deputy chairman of the Russian government Dmitry Kozak suggested the major industrial groups to supply iron ore to the militants of the so-called Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. In particular, Alisher Usmanov’s Metalloinvest and Alexei Mordashov’s Severstal representatives attended the meeting with Kozak. According to a source, the issue of iron ore deliveries to…
The Kemerovo region adopted a local decree “On taxation of organizations that mine iron ore”. Because of the iron ore price drop, the mining in the region has been on the brink of profitability for the past couple of years. The regional MPs decided to decrease the tax burden of the ore-miners. From 2013 to…
After a 6-months idleness Metal-group has resumed iron ore extraction at its Yakovlevsky mine in Belgorod region. By March almost all employees have to be engaged in the work. Annual ore output is expected to increase to 100 thousand tons. Since February 1, the operation started in limited volume, with 55% employees working. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2016 Lemtrans transported 60.2 million tons of various cargoes by rail in total. Coal and iron ore account for the biggest share of shipped cargo. In particular, the company transported 24.72 million tons of coal and 19.94 million tons of iron ore. The biggest growth was seen in the transportation of coke: a 46.8%…
Mikhail Spektor has been appointed the president of Black Iron to speed up the implementation of iron ore extraction and processing project in Ukraine. According to the company statement, up till September 2015, he has been the president of the VS Energy. Spektor will be responsible for obtaining all the necessary permits from the government…
In 2016 Ukraine exported 37.7 million tons of iron ore raw materials, down by 7.8 million tons YoY. According to the state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa, the largest drop in exports was to China – by 9.6 million tons. This market is the farthest and the less competitive for Ukrainian suppliers. On the other hand, Serbia and…
