PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and Foundation for development of the New Technologies Development and Commercialization Center at the Skolkovo Foundation have signed an agreement to establish the MMK Research Center at Skolkovo. The agreement was signed by MMK CEO Pavel Shilyaev and President of the Skolkovo Foundation Victor Vekselberg. MMK plans to invest…
DetailsIn 2018 Pobuzhye FerronickelPlant intends to use some 110 million UAH of investments. “The invest program for the next year is being prepared and will be approved in late October. But we expect its amount on the level not less, than this year”, the company CEO Oleg Bespaly said. According to him, this year the…
DetailsIn January-August Russia exported 27.322 million tons of ferrous metals, down by 4.65% YoY. Far foreign countries imported 23.3 million tons. Exports of ferrous metals without pig iron, ferroalloys, wastes and scrap totaled 19.062 million tons, down by 1.47% YoY. Far foreign countries imported 16.148 million tons. Carbon steel semi-finished products exports reached 9.374 million…
DetailsIn January-September Kapan Mining and Processing Works processed 389 thousand tons of ore. In Q3 ore processing totaled 149 thousand tons against 112 thousand tons in Q3 2016. Gold contents in 1 ton of ore in Q3 were 2 g, down by 15% YoY, silver contents – 35 g (-27%), copper – 0.27% (-14%), and…
DetailsPolymetal CEO Vitaly Nesis thinks that silver has more prospects than gold. According to him, demand for silver is much higher, while the output decreases. In time price of silver will grow. At the same time, it is difficult to forecast gold price. That’s why Polymetal CEO believes that silver is better than gold. “Silver…
DetailsSeverstal is increasing the rolled metal storage capacities at the industrial port of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works by one third. The new hangar (135 x 24 x 14 m) will be made of metal frame weighing over 90 tons, over which an awing cover with double sided PVC coating will be put. With the…
DetailsIn September Coal Energy S. A. (Luxembourg) with assets in Ukraine decreased coal output by 77.8%, or by 33.779 thousand tons YoY, to 9.628 thousand tons. At the same time output dropped by 6.9% MoM, or by 716 tons. Coal Energy has 10 coalmines, as well as processing assets. The company business has been seriously…
DetailsIn January-September Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant processed 946.5 thousand tons of ore, down by 14% YoY. According to the company CEO Oleg Bespaly, ferronickel output decreased by 12.8% YoY, to 54.1 thousand tons, or 11.5 thousand tons of raw nickel, down by 18.1%. The output decrease has to do with a major repair campaign. In particular,…
DetailsIn Q3 Polymetal International plc produced the record of 470 thousand ounces of gold, up by 26% YoY. In 9 months gold output totaled 1028 thousand ounces, up by 15% YoY and corresponds to the annual plan of 1.4 million ounces. Silver output dropped by 7%, to 7.4 million ounces. Sales in Q3 reached $546…
DetailsIn January-September Priisk Solovievsky yielded 2636 kg of gold. In Amur region the company obtained 2531 kg of gold, up by 63.6% YoY (1440 kg). In Zabaykalye region gold output totaled 285 kg, down by 11% YoY. This year the company intends to obtain 3300-3500 kg of gold. Last year the yield was 2482 kg…
DetailsBeloretsk Iron and Steel Works has purchased 2 new forklifts. They will improve the speed of loading and unloading. The lifting capacity of the Toyota forklifts is 2 tons. They can hoist cargo to the height of 3 meters. “The new machines replaced the outdated ones in the shipping shop. They will considerably speed up…
DetailsIn January-September Altai-Koks produced 3.08 million tons of coke, up by 2% YoY. The company capacity was 98% loaded. On local market Altai-Koks sold some 82% of coke, including 75% to the NLMK group enterprises. The rest was exported to Kazakhstan, Germany, Belgium and France. In 9 months the company also produced some 66 thousand…
DetailsTominsky Mining and Processing Works has started constructing the main premises of its processing factory, as well as other industrial and auxiliary objects. The enterprise will comprise 17 construction objects. The company has already made the foundation for the main premises. At present some 200 employees and 45 units of machinery are engaged in the…
DetailsIn July-September major steel companies of Russia – Severstal, NLMK, and MMK – increased output. In particular, NLMK produced 12.6 million tons of steel in 9 months, up by 3% YoY, MMK – 9.6 million tons, up by 1.9%, while Severstal dropped steel output by 1%, to 8.6 million tons. The reason of the increase…
DetailsIn Q3 Evraz produced 3.506 million tons of steel, up by 5.9% QoQ. “The consolidated steel output grew, first of all, because of the completion of the scheduled repairs of the oxygen-converter shop at Evraz DMZ (Ukraine)”, the group noted. Semi-finished products output reached 3.121 million tons, up by 4.4% QoQ. In Q4 Evraz expects…
DetailsThe Board of Directors of PJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works on October 16 approved a resolution to convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (EGM) with absentee voting, and approved the agenda for the EGM. Dividends on issued shares of PJSC MMK will be paid based on the results of the first nine months…
DetailsIn January-September Kazakhstan produced 62,697 kg of unwrought gold, up by 16.3% YoY.
According to the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy, production of unwrought silver in the reporting period amounted to 792,535 kg, down by 12.5% from January-September of 2016. (Kazinform/Ukrainian metal)
Kazakhstan offered to limit the export of coal for the period of preparation for the heating season. This proposal was received from the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Electric Stations JSC informed that there are no problems with the supply of Kazakh coal to the Bishkek Heating and Power Station: 261,119 tons…
DetailsLuchegorsk Coal Pit intends to start developing new coal sites of the Luchegorsky-2 pit at the Bikinskoye deposits. At present LUR mines some 4.1-4.2 million tons of coal per year. At the same time it its interested in covering all the needs of the power-generating companies of the region in coal and plans to increase…
DetailsIn January-September the St. Petersburg subsidiary of the First Cargo Company transported 108 thousand tons of ore and non-ferrous concentrates, up by 75% YoY. The subsidiary throughput in this segment increased by a third and reached 178 million ton-km. According to the company statement, the main cargoes are nickel matte, alumina and aluminum ore. Nickel…
DetailsThe Russian Copper Company has been awarded the “Socially responsible company of the year” at the 11th annual “Russian Mining Award”. In 2016-2017 RMK carried out a number of social projects aimed at developing territories around its enterprises and improving the living standards of the population. The company also finances the construction and repair of…
DetailsRaspadskaya miners have yielded 5 million tons of coal since the year started. The symbolical stone with an inscription “5 million tons” was handed to the company management. “5 million tons is a major milestone for the mine. Only a couple of companies reach it in Russia. In 2018 we intend to modernize the 6-33…
DetailsThe United Metallurgical Company has completed the delivery of large diameter pipes with corrosion-resistant coating and joints to Kazakhstan. The volume of the products shipped exceeded 12 thousand tons. Customers were the largest power-generating companies of the country – Kaztransgaz and Kaztransoil, both parts of the national company KazMunayGaz. OMK delivered 1220 mm diameter pipes…
DetailsThe state enterprise Mine named after Surgay (Donetsk region) has ordered the Tekhpostavka LLC the delivery of equipment for rock drilling valued at 3.67 million UAH. By the end of the year the company will have supplied a number of cutting tools and holding devices. In June Surgay Mine bought 100 thousand UAH worth of…
DetailsIn January-September Izhstal sold 320 thousand tons of metal, up by 13% YoY. Steel output increased by 23%, to 235 thousand tons, rolled metal – by 2%, to 263 thousand tons. Output increase is due to the growth of sales of continuous cast billets to Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works, the largest metal wares manufacturer…
DetailsIn January-July Russia produced 157.19 tons of gold (145.95 tons in 2016), including 126.39 tons of mined gold (117.76 tons), 10.41 tons of accompanying gold (8.46 tons) and 20.39 tons of secondary gold (19.73 tons). Silver output totaled 593.19 tons (581.07 tons), including 268.25 tons of mined silver (291.74 tons), 196.84 tons of accompanying silver…
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