The prices of gold and platinum increased, while the prices of silver and palladium decreased in Azerbaijan on April 30, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 6.6215 manats, to 2246.8815 manats per troy ounce in Azerbaijan compared to the price on April 27. The cost of…
DetailsThe interdepartmental commission will calculate the damage that was caused during the riots on the territory of the goldmine plant Makmalzoloto. Earlier it was reported that a license for the construction of a gold-processing plant was issued illegally and a criminal case was opened on the fact. The administration added that Chinese investors invited an…
DetailsRussian gold producer GV Gold has approved a new dividend policy to keep the high payouts and will calculate dividends on the basis of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) starting from the dividends for 2017, the company said in a statement. GV Gold set the target level of dividends at 30% of…
DetailsLast week the price of one ounce of gold in Azerbaijan decreased by 28.067 manats or by 1.25%. Accordingly, the average price of one ounce of gold stood at 2,254.1558 manats. The price of one ounce of silver decreased by 0.9518 manats or 3.39%, to 28.4143 manats. The price of one ounce of platinum decreased…
DetailsIn March Russia exported 113 thousand tons of ferrous scrap via railroad, up by 27.8% MoM and by 26.4% YoY. In February the results were up by 9.9% but down by 4.9%, and in January – down by 26.6% and by 0.2% respectively. In January-March Russia exported 281.8 thousand tons of scrap, up by 7.2%…
DetailsBelarus Iron and Steel Works bronzed bead wire mill No. 2 of the steel wire shop No. 1 resumed operation after a fire in November 2017. Next month the first batches will be shipped to the customers. The reconstruction and repair of the mill lasted for over 4 months. The capacity of the mill is…
DetailsIn January-March Kazakhstan produced 63.2 billion tenge worth of iron ore, up by 0.8% YoY. Kostanay region saw the largest output (87.1%, or 55.1 billion tenge, down by 2.9%). It was followed by Karaganda region (10.4%, 6.6 billion tenge, up by 26.4%) and Akmola region (1.6%, 1 billion tenge, up by 41.8%). Processing industry saw…
DetailsKolmar LLC has put into operation the Denisovskaya Processing Factory in Yakutia. According to the company CEO Artem Levin, the factory was constructed record-fast – it took less than a year from the start of the design work to the construction. This year the factory is expected to reach its full capacity of 6 million…
DetailsIn January-March Raspadskaya sold 1.9 million tons of coal concentrate, up by 12% YoY and by 6% QoQ. Domestic sales accounted for 545 thousand tons and exports for 1.4 million tons. The sales price grew by 12% QoQ, with domestic prices up by 15%, and export prices by 13%. Coal output increased by 4% YoY…
DetailsSince April 20 the processing factories of Rusolovo have started operating in normal mode. This is the first time that the season starts so early. Prior to the official commissioning the factories were operating in the testing mode. The commissioning of the Solnechnaya factory was complicated by the problems with the frozen water pipeline. “The…
DetailsIn January-March Norilsk Nickel produced 54 thousand tons of nickel, up by 1% YoY. The manufacture of the company own raw materials totaled 53 thousand tons, up by 8%. The increase has to do with the growth of converter matte processing. Copper output totaled 112 thousand tons, up by 18%. The manufacture of copper from…
DetailsSeverstal has started manufacturing high-strength and wear-resistant steel grades. Their usage decreases the thickness of rolled metal used by increasing its strength, thus affecting the railroad cargo throughput. The company has also presented two-layer steel grades. “The Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works two-layer metal could replace foreign analogues on the Russian market, which the railroad…
DetailsThe industrial port of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has started the 2018 navigation. The first vessels with metal will head to St Petersburg, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Taganrog and Nizhny Novgorod. The warehouses stock some 40 thousand tons of metal. The warehousing territory has been increased by one third. In 2017 the CherMK port throughput was…
DetailsIreland has considered several scenarios of intervention in operations of a local plant of Russian aluminum maker RUSAL Aughinish Alumina after the U.S. sanctions. Yet all of them have been rejected, Reuters reported, citing a source with knowledge of the situation. On April 6 the U.S. imposed sanctions against 38 Russian tycoons, officials and companies…
DetailsRussia’s RUSAL will overhaul its board and management in the hope the U.S. will remove the aluminum firm from a sanctions list so it can restart shipments to its customers around the world, Reuters reported citing two sources. The sources, familiar with the developments but who asked not to be named because they were not…
DetailsIn 2017 Zaporizhstal increased net profit 2.5-fold YoY, to 5.118 billion UAH, having increased its net income by 5.2%, to 33.208 billion UAH. According to the company statement, the prime cost of metal sold totaled 23.724 billion UAH. Last year Zaporizhstal produced 3926.4 thousand tons of steel, up by 0.9% YoY. The company also produced…
DetailsIt is planned to produce 20 tons of mercury, 104 tons of antimony and 3,450 tons of fluorite (fluorspar concentrate) this year at Khaidarkan mercury plant, the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union Eldar Tadzhibaev declared. According to him, in the first quarter of the year the enterprise received…
DetailsUkrainian steelmakers boosted steel output by 4.7% YoY in March, to 1.7 million tons, having slid from the 12th to the 14th place in the international steelmakers rating drawn up by the World Steel Association (WSA). In January-March Ukraine reduced steel production by 2.8% YoY. China continued to top the rating in March with 73.9…
DetailsIn February Metinvest increased the adjusted EBITDA by 29.8% YoY, to $196 million, but dropped by 14% MoM. According to the company statement, its revenue grew by 54.5% YoY, but decreased by 9.4% MoM, to $914 million. In February Metinvest increased metal sales by 47.6% YoY, but decreased by 18.2% MoM, to 1.287 million tons.…
DetailsIn January-March Ukraine produced 4.59 million tons of metal, down by 2% YoY, taking into account operation of metal enterprises in January-February 2017 on the occupied territories. Without them metal output increased by 8% YoY. Exports totaled 3.23 million tons, or 83.3% of the overall output, down from 85% in Q1 2017, or 3.97 million…
DetailsIn January-March Mechel decreased its net losses 1.7-fold YoY, to 5.1 billion rubles. According to the company statement, its revenue grew 2.2-fold, to 2 billion rubles. Gross profit increased 2.1-fold, to 2 billion rubles. Sales profit totaled 1.6 billion rubles, up 2.8-fold. The company fixed liabilities increased by 2.6%, to 239.7 billion rubles, while current…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih intends to spend the 2017 profit on the manufacture development.
The decision was taken at the recent annual shareholders meeting. A new supervisory board and revision committee have also been elected.
Last year AMKR received 66.19 billion UAH of net income, with net profit at 5.06 billion UAH. (Ukrainian metal)
China National Petroleum Corporation is building a mini-pipe works with the capacity of 100 thousand tons per year. The works will occupy a territory of 18.3 ha in the industrial zone of Almaty. Investments in the project will total $100 million, with a half to be provided by the Chinese investor. In the long-term it…
DetailsInformation from anonymous sources of agencies Reuters and Bloomberg about Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL is questionable, the company said on its Facebook page on April 27. “In connection with publication of reports about RUSAL by agencies Reuters and Bloomberg based on information received from anonymous sources of questionable quality, RUSAL’s press office states the…
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