Lugansk region miners have announced a strike and refuse to go underground until their salary debts are cleared. On October 8 employees of the Novodruzhevskaya mine, a part of Lisichanskugol, stopped extracting coal. The salary debt to them amounts to 120 million UAH. The employees of the nearby mine named after Kapustin have warned the…
DetailsDnipro River Port has transshipped a batch of Turkish galvanized coils. “On October 7 the port started unloading steel coils from the Nefterudovoz-46M. The ship has brought 2.5 thousand tons of high-quality galvanized steel coils from Turkey”, the port authority reported. The coils are transported from the ship directly to the trucks. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsThe Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has started reviewing the case on the purchase by Vesco Limited of Chasov Yar Refractory Works shares (Donetsk region). As a result of the purchase the company will accumulate more than 50% of shares. As of Q2, Zaporizhstal owned 24.99% of Chasov Yar Works shares. And the rest belonged to…
DetailsIn January-September Dalpolymetal mined 720.4 thousand tons of ore, up by 15.6% YoY. Processing volumes grew by 20.1%, to 732.2 thousand tons. Until the end of the year the company intends to have processed 1 million tons. Manufacture of lead concentrate totaled 12.78 thousand tons, up by 7.3% YoY, and zinc concentrate – 29.24 thousand…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine exported 40.63 thousand tons of scrap, down 7.6-fold YoY, valued at $11.27 million, down 8.9-fold. According to the State Fiscal Service, in September Ukraine exported 3.55 thousand tons of scrap, in August – 155 tons, in July – 204 tons, in June – 208 tons, in May – 8.09 thousand tons, in…
DetailsDneprometiz intends to launch the manufacture of high-quality galvanized steel wire. In particular, the company will reconstruct the existing wire shop. The annual capacity of the shop will be 24 thousand tons of galvanized wire with the diameter of 0.8 to 9 mm. Dneprometiz is already operating two hot dip-galvanizing machines for wire with the…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine decreased ferrous metals exports by 10,3% YoY, to $6.937 billion. According to the State Fiscal Service, ferrous metals accounted for 18.7% of exports as opposed to 22.39% in 9 months of 2018. In September Ukraine earned $637.088 million on ferrous metals exports. In 9 months corresponding imports decreased by 5%, to $963.818…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine decreased ferroalloys exports by 2.3% YoY, to 665.576 thousand tons valued at $733.398 million, down by 2.9%. According to the State Fiscal Service, the main customers were Turkey (17.38%), Italy (16.08%) and the Netherlands (9.59%). At the same time in 9 months Ukraine imported 33.156 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by 16.9%…
DetailsIn January-September Irkutsk region extracted 19,030 kg of gold, up by 0.6% YoY. 10,526 kg accounted for ore gold and 8,505 – for alluvial gold. The largest output in 9 months among ore gold extractors was achieved by Polyus Verninskoye – 5,803 kg, followed by Vysochaishiy with 2,231 kg and Ugakhan with 1,610 kg. Lenzoloto…
DetailsIRC Ltd, operating the Kimkano-Sutarsky Mining and Processing Works in the Jewish Autonomous District, has increased the manufacturing capacities to 95%. In August the operation of the GOK was affected by heavy rains. Now that the weather has stabilized, IRC has resumed work to prepare the enterprise for winter and increase its capacity. In H1…
DetailsTMK has supplied the second batch of casing pipes with the size of 244.45×11.99 mm of the L80 strength group and with TMK UP PF joints to Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd for the oil and gas project Sakhalin-2. The pipes were produced at Volzhsky Pipe Works. The order has been fulfilled under a long-term…
DetailsIngulets Mining and Processing Works will be extracting magnesian slate from its iron ore waste at the Inguletskoye deposit of ferrous slates. The slate extracted will be sold without additional processing. Thus the company intends to free some 2.68 ha of tailings. Magnesian slate reserves are estimated at 20-22 million tons. InGOK can operate at…
DetailsA recently created Ukrainian Mining Company LLC intends to mine iron ore at the Severniy quarry of the Saksaganskoye deposit in Krivoy Rog, used to be developed by Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. Terex excavators with the ladles of 7 cubic meters (or their analogues) and 55-ton BelAZ trucks (or their analogues) will be…
DetailsRussia’s aluminum exports increased by 11.3% YoY, to 2.116 million tons in January-August, the Federal Customs Service said. In monetary terms, aluminum exports rose by 8.3%, to $3.586 billion in the period. Copper exports remained flat at 441,400 tons worth $2.659 billion, down by 8.2%. Nickel exports went down by 5.8%, to 85,100 tons with…
DetailsIn January-September Ferrexpo, controlling Poltava and Yeristovo Mining and Processing Works, increased combined pellets output by 1.7% YoY, to 7.891 million tons. The manufacture of 65% iron content pellets totaled 7.580 million tons, up by 4.2%, and 62% iron content – 310.99 thousand tons, down by 35.8%. The output of 65% iron content pellets of…
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