At the Novogrodovskaya mine of the state enterprise Selidovugol in Donetsk region 34 miners of the first shift refused to go above ground.
According to the chairman of the International Miners Union of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets, they demand paying salary.
“The miners want their salary debts cleared”, he wrote on his Facebook page. (Ukrainian metal)
“An investor from China doesn’t modernize production at Makmalzoloto,” Kyrgyzaltyn JSC cited deputy of the parliament Kozhobek Ryspayev. Yesterday he said that the investor, who was ready to work at Makmal, was tripped up. Kyrgyzaltyn specified that it was not a question of modernizing the existing production at Makmalzoloto plant. Kyrgyzaltyn signed an agreement with…
DetailsThe Verkhovnaya Rada budget committee has rearranged funds, which will allow paying salary to miners. “Some 306 million UAH will be spent to clear salary debts to miners”, Mikhail Volynets, the chairman of the Independent Miners Union of Ukraine, wrote on his Facebook page. In particular, Mirnogradugol, where employees of only one mine were paid…
DetailsBeloretsk Iron and Steel Works has become a member of the International association of manufacturers, sellers and consumers of welding electrodes and equipment Electrode. This will strengthen the company partner relations and expand its sales market. The Association unites 32 companies from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. “BMK joining the Association is an important event for…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau will invest $21 million into the strategically important steel project. At present the ladle furnace construction is nearing its end. Its commissioning is scheduled for late Q2 2018. “The converter shop is undergoing a serious repair. This year we carried out 21 investment projects there. The most important for the steel manufacture is…
DetailsIn Q3 Polyus gold output increased by 16%, to 642 thousand ounces. Mined ore totaled 9915 thousand tons, up by 45% YoY. Gold sales increased by 5%, to $734 million at the average price of $1279 per ounce. As of September 30, the company total debt was $3151 million, up from $3084 million as of…
DetailsIn January-September the coal division of the Industrial-Metallurgical Holding increased coking coal output by 50%, to 2.17 million tons. The increase is the result of two mines put in operation in May. Coal concentrate output at Berezovskaya Central Processing Factory totaled 1.87 million tons, down by 4% YoY. Coke output in 3 quarters dropped by…
DetailsIn January-September Kuzbassrazrezugol produced 34.8 thousand tons of coal, up by 4.5% YoY. Coking coal accounted for 4.6 million tons, up by 1.6% from the target. Baykaimskaya mine yielded the most coking coal – 850 thousand tons. Since the start of the year the company has shipped 31.4 million tons of coal to consumers, with…
DetailsIn January-September DTEK increased purchases of coal from Lviv and Volyn region mines by 6.3%, to 521 thousand tons. According to the company statement, the growth has to do with the increase in electricity output at combined heat and power plants operating on the gas coal. In September Western Ukraine mines supplied DTEK with 75…
DetailsThe Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has allowed Glencore to buy Nikolaev Alumina Works from Rusal.
Glencore will own a share in Aluminiy Ukrainy LLC and Guardon Ukraina LLC, which own 13.96% and 86.04% in NGZ respectively.
In 2016 Nikolaev Alumina Works produced 1.51 million tons of alumina, up by 2% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In September industrial product prices increased by 2.4%.
According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, in quarrying and ore processing prices increased by 14.4%, in non-ferrous metals ore – by 1.9%.
Pig iron, steel and ferroalloys became 11.2% more expensive, while non-ferrous metals prices increased by 8.3%, and copper – by 7.1%. (Ukrainian metal)
In September Tulachermet produced 203.2 thousand tons of pig iron – the maximum monthly result in all its history. The target for September has been overfulfilled by 6.291 thousand tons. The previous record of 202.1 thousand tons was achieved in May 2016. The growth of output is the result of the faultless operation of blast…
DetailsElectrozinc is cleaning its area of old clinker. Since the start of the year the company has shipped 21 thousand tons of clinker dump for processing. “Every day some 300 tons of clinker are prepared for shipping”, the company reported. Since the start of the campaign almost 43 thousand tons of clinker have been removed…
DetailsIn January-September Uralskaya Kuznitsa increased sales by 31% YoY. In 9 months UralKuz shipped 69 thousand tons of products, up by 16 thousand tons. The increase in sales has to do with the growth of forgings manufacture of carbon and alloyed steel by 71% and by 32% respectively. Railroad axles output went up by 30%.…
DetailsIn January-September Ukraine exported 29.1 million tons of iron ore raw materials, up by 2% YoY. In September exports increased by 100 thousand tons MoM, to 2.9 million tons. Imports in January-September dropped by 93% YoY, to 90 thousand tons. In September, just like in 6 months before that, Ukraine did not import iron ore…
DetailsRussian gold bar production rose by 5.4% YoY but fell by 6.1% MoM in September, the Federal State Statistics Service said. In January-September, gold bar production increased by 8.1% YoY. In 2016, Russia’s gold bar output fell by 7.8%. Previously, absolute figures on the production of non-ferrous metals were a state secret. The figures are…
DetailsIn January-September Severniy Mining and Processing Works produced 5.567 million tons of pellets, down by 16.1% YoY. Concentrate output fell by 7.3%, to 8.425 million tons. In September SevGOK produced 738 thousand tons of pellets and 905 thousand tons of concentrate as opposed to 644 thousand tons and 988 thousand tons respectively in August. In…
DetailsEmployees of Rodinskaya mine (a part of the state enterprise Mirnogradugol) said coal mining stopped on October 13. Miners go underground but do not work, as they still have not received salary for August and September. “The mine director comes to us every day and asks to start working. But he cannot tell us when…
DetailsNeryungry-Metallik LLC, a part of Nordgold, will invest 400 million rubles in the purchase of new mining and transport machinery in 2017. The company has already put a powerful Komatsu PC-300 excavator in operation with the ladle volume of 15 cubic meters. After repairs a CAT 993 loader was put in operation. There are currently…
DetailsIn January-September TMK sold 2.56 million tons of pipes, up by 10.3% YoY.
According to the company report, in particular, it sold almost 2 million tons of seamless pipes, up by 13.1% YoY, and 625 thousand tons of welded pipes, up by 4.1% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In July-September TMK sold 1.013 million tons of steel pipes, up by 5% QoQ. Sales of seamless pipes dropped by 5.3%, to 651 thousand tons because of the scheduled repairs. OCTG pipes sales remained on the level of the previous quarter. Welded pipes deliveries increased by 30.7% QoQ, to 362 thousand tons mostly because of…
DetailsRepresentatives of the Belarus Universal Trade Exchange have visited one of the largest non-ferrous metals warehouses in Russia – in the city of Podolsk – and negotiated trade with the Galaktika Company. At present the company is one of the most successful trading enterprises in Russia dealing with wholesale of non-ferrous metals. The total size…
DetailsIn January-September Ukrainian metal companies received 2.4 million tons of scrap, up by 6% YoY, but still 89% of their need. In September scrap deliveries increased by 20 thousand tons MoM, to 290 thousand tons, or 89% of the need. Scrap exports in September dropped by 20 thousand tons MoM, to 50 thousand tons. In…
DetailsIn September Ukrainian metal companies consumed 135 million cubic meters of gas, down by 5 million cubic meters MoM. Average daily gas consumption stayed at the level of 4.5 million cubic meters. In January-September gas consumption increased by 3% YoY, to 1.3 billion cubic meters. Average daily gas consumption totaled 4.7 million cubic meters against…
DetailsUkrmetallurgprom believes that this year steel output will fall by 12% YoY, to 21 million tons. Pig iron and rolled metal manufacture will drop by 14%, to 20 million tons and 18 million tons respectively. “In comparison with the year 2007 pig iron output decreased by 15 million tons (by 43%), steel – by 21…
DetailsThe minister of ecology Ostap Semeral believes that the current size of the environment tax is nothing for major companies that sell metal at world prices. Thus, the environment tax size should be considerably increased. The lowest rates are in Mexico and Poland – 1 euro per ton, but in Ukraine they are 100 times…
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