Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex intends to mine up to 74 million tons of copper ore per year at the Yoshlik I deposit. The development of the deposit, situated next to the Kalmakir deposit, started in 2017. Art present the company employs 1330 people and 54 quarry dump trucks there. The first copper ore will…
DetailsSince the start of the year and as of mid-September Magadan region extracted 30.2 tons of gold, up by 23.1% YoY. Ore gold accounted for 17.75 tons, up by 43.8%. Alluvial gold extraction reached 12.44 tons, up by 2%. This year 3.49 tons of alluvial gold more are needed to be extracted. Silver output totaled…
DetailsIn August Korshunovsky Mining and Processing Works increased iron ore concentrate manufacture by 35% YoY, to 254 thousand tons. The concentrate was shipped to Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works. Ore mining grew by 11%. In H1 iron ore concentrate output increased by 31% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn July Russia exported 15.5 thousand tons of aluminum wire, down by 20.8% MoM, but up by 45.8% YoY. Deliveries to Switzerland dropped by 39%, to Belarus by 8% and to Poland by 14%. In January-July exports totaled 95.2 thousand tons, up by 24% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of the year the…
DetailsIn July Russia imported 2.1 thousand tons of aluminum scrap and wastes, down by 32% MoM and by 29.4% YoY. Kazakhstan, USA and Kyrgyzstan have decreased their deliveries by 33%, 31% and 40% respectively. In 7 months imports totaled 16.4 thousand tons, down by 27.8% YoY. In monetary terms since the start of the year…
DetailsMining holds the largest share in the industrial production in Azerbaijan. Mining of precious metals such as gold and silver is increasing in volume. Thus, gold mining amounted to 2,405 kg in January-August, up by 7.2% YoY, the State Statistics Committee stated. In August alone 344.8 kg of gold was mined in Azerbaijan and transferred…
DetailsThe gold-bearing deposit Polyanka, situated in the Nikolayevsk Advanced Development Territory, has been put into operation. NGK Resurs will be mining and processing some 1.5 million tons of gold-bearing ore per year. The resources of the deposit amount to 100 tons of gold. Until 2025 the investor plans to mine 7.7 tons of gold and…
DetailsThe three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange was higher during morning trading on Wednesday September 18, edging back above the $17,000-per-tonne resistance level despite moderate turnover, while the rest of the complex consolidated lower. Nickel’s outright price was recently seen at $17,170 per tonne, while trading volumes over the morning were modest at…
DetailsIn July Russia imported 79 thousand tons of chromium ore and concentrate, up by 4% MoM and by 14.3% YoY. Most of the ore was imported from Kazakhstan. But deliveries have been falling for several months: April – 82.9 thousand tons, May – 77.1 thousand tons, June – 69.8 thousand tons and July – 61.5…
DetailsIn January-August Russia produced 34.1 million tons of pig iron, down by 1.9% YoY. In August the output dropped by 0.8% YoY, but grew by 1.3% MoM. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, Russia produced 39.4 million tons of unalloyed steel and semi-finished products, down by 1.1% YoY. In August the manufacture decreased…
DetailsIn January-August rolled metal consumption in Ukraine dropped by 10.99% YoY, to 2.83 million tons. Imports accounted for 953.4 thousand tons, or 33.7%, up by 3.5%. In 8 months of 2018 the domestic market consumed 3.141 million tons of rolled metal, including 948.5 thousand tons, or 30.2% of imports. The share of flat rolled metal…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works’ (MMK) representatives took part in the Second Congress of the Russian Steel Association on labor protection, industrial and environment safety held in Stary Oskol. MMK invests around 2.5 billion rubles in occupational safety every year. The event was held on September 10-11 on the site of the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant…
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