The Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree to increase the number of deposits to be given into concession to investors. According to the document, signed on May 30, three more oil deposits have been included in the list. Now the list has 15 objects, including precious metals deposits of Zuberovo in Minsk region.…
DetailsMetinvest demands the reimbursement of VAT for 2016 for the works, the control over which was lost in mid-March. According to the group statement, the state debt on VAT reimbursement to the companies on the uncontrolled territories of Donbass stands at $35 million. At the same time, Metinvest claims that in 2016 VAT reimbursement to…
DetailsThe development of the Amulsar gold deposits is the largest investment project of Armenia. Total investments in the project will reach some $370 million. 570 builders are involved in the construction work, with 280 being locals. The mine will create 700 jobs. The project started in August 2016, while preliminary work began in 2006. The…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau has put into operation 4 new heading machines at its mines. In particular, the machines were sent to the Abaiskaya, Kazakhstanskaya, Shakhtinskaya and Kostenko mines. The total cost of the heading machines exceeded 650 million tenge. This year the company plans to invest even more in the development of all its 8 mines.…
DetailsAccording to the analytical center of the Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in January-March Ukraine received 1 million tons of rolled metal (1.1 million tons with pipes), up by 10.2% YoY. Imports increased by 5.4%, to 0.16 million tons. The share of imports decreased to 16.7% from 17.5% in Q1 2016. The delivery of angles…
DetailsRussian gold-mining company Polyus has signed an agreement to sell 10% (12.56 million) shares to the Consortium of investors chaired by Fosun International Ltd. The price of the purchase is $70.6 per share. Within the agreement the company has also provided the Consortium with an option to buy additional 5% of shares at $77.66 per…
DetailsSeverstal has been selected the supplier of rolled metal till August to Renault-Nissan. The Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works sheet will be used in production of cars. “In 2016 CherMK put into operation a cold-rolling mill, which would improve the quality of the cold-rolled metal and would produce wider sheet”, Severstal Management sales director Evgeniy…
DetailsIn May Ukraine produced 1.689 million tons of steel, up by 7.5% YoY. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, pig iron output increased by 10.2%, to 1.591 million tons, that of rolled metal – by 6.3%, to 1.424 million tons. Average daily steel manufacture in May was 54.5 thousand tons, up from 52.4 thousand tons in April. Average…
DetailsIn May Zaporizhstal produced 325.2 thousand tons of steel, down by 11.2% YoY. According to the company statement, pig iron output dropped by 17.1%, to 285.5 thousand tons, that of rolled metal – by 12.3%, to 272 thousand tons. The decrease of output is the result of the shut down of the blast furnace No.…
DetailsAt an Annual General Meeting held on May 31 in St. Petersburg, members of the Russian Steel Association elected the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK Group Vladimir Lisin their new President. Lisin will preside over the Association for the next two years. Anatoly Sedikh, Chairman of the Management Board of OMK, was…
DetailsMetinvest-Resource, a scrap supplier of Metinvest companies, Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsk Pipe Works and ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih have won tenders, organized by Ukrzaliznytsia to sell 84.5 thousand tons of scrap. AMKR won 38 thousand tons of scrap, having offered 193 million UAH (5080 UAH per ton). Metinvest-Resource bought 24 thousands tons of scrap for 114.72 million UAH…
DetailsAlexander Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group has taken over the management of Evraz Sukhaya Balka and appointed Vitaly Bash its new CEO. “We will do our best to make Sukhaya Balka develop. There will be no sharp actions, but we still intend to implement some novelties that we have devised at DCH”, Yaroslavsky said. The next several…
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