Russia: UEM starts producing fuel instead of coke
The subsidiary of Uralelectromed – “Proizvodstvo polymetallov” (Polymetal manufacture) – has started producing fuel briquettes to be used as fuel for mine furnaces. The prime cost of 1 ton of briquettes of coke breeze and dust is twice as low as that of coke. According to the subsidiary chief engineer Oleg Belyaev, this is a…