This weekend the new education project for employees’ children has started at ArcelorMittal – School of Young Engineers. The educational program includes chemical and physical experiments, master classes in wood and metal work, electrical and robotics, and 3D-printing. Participants of the School of Young Engineers will be 320 children at the age of 9 to…
DetailsRussian aluminum giant RUSAL has suspended shipments of aluminum using facilities of container shipping company TransContainer, the operator’s CEO Pyotr Baskakov declared on April 17. “RUSAL doesn’t know yet what is happening so has suspended all shipments. We have delivered about 700 containers of the planned 3,000 per month. Export deliveries have stopped. This does…
DetailsGold output of precious metals producer Polymetal International increased by 8% YoY, to 214,000 ounces, while silver production decreased by 3%, to 6 million ounces in January-March, the company said in a statement on April 18. Total output in gold equivalent grew by 5%, to 295,000 ounces in the period. Revenue went up by 19%,…
DetailsThe prices of the main precious metals varied on April 18, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold decreased by 1.7765 manats, to 2284.086 manats per troy ounce compared to the price on April 17. The cost of silver increased by 0.1269 manats, to 28.4471 manats per ounce. The…
DetailsIn February, according to the customs statistics, Russia exported 1.16 million tons of semi-finished non-alloyed steel products, down by 2% MoM and by 7.8% YoY. In January the results were down by 13.8%, but up by 2.4% respectively. In January-February exports reached 2.34 million tons, down by 2.9% YoY. Taiwan imported the most – 20%,…
DetailsVorkutaugol, one of the largest coalmining companies in Russia, has purchased the Ostroj mechanized anchoring for its Zapolyarnaya mine. The cost of the investment project is over 500 million rubles. The enterprise will receive 110 sections of the Czech anchoring. The first two batches were delivered to Vorkuta in April. The commissioning of the anchoring…
DetailsIn January-March Poluys increased gold output by 13% YoY, to 507 thousand ounces. At the same time the output dropped from 580 thousand ounces in October-December 2017 due to the decrease in alluvial manufacture. Ore output reached 8.821 million tons, down by 12% QoQ, but up by 2% YoY. Sales revenue totaled $608 million, down…
DetailsIn January-March Russia produced 15.4 million tons of rolled metal, up by 2% YoY. In March output grew by 12.5% MoM, but dropped by 0.3% YoY. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, pig iron manufacture totaled 13 million tons, up by 0.2% YoY. In March output decreased by 2.2% YoY, but grew by…
DetailsThe high level of world prices allowed Severstal to demonstrate flexibility of distribution channels and increase exports in Q1. “We expect the increase of steel demand in 2018. In 2017 the demand grew by some 5% in Russia, and this year it could grow by 2.6% more, following the GDP increase and the restoration of…
DetailsIn February Russia exported 380.4 thousand tons of ferrous scrap, up by 11% MoM and by 89% YoY. In January the results were down by 45.6%, but up by 38.7% respectively. According to the customs statistics, in January-February Russia exported 723.3 thousand tons of scrap, up by 61.2% YoY, and the highest result in the…
DetailsLate on April 16 there was an explosion of an air-methane mixture at the Pokrovskaya mine in Donetsk region.
The explosion occurred at the depth of 470 meters on the second south long face.
7 miners were injured. They have been taken to the hospitals in the cities of Kramatorsk and Mirnograd. (Ukrainian metal)
Major Japanese trading houses have asked UC RUSAL to stop shipping refined aluminum and other products in light of U.S. sanctions on the world’s No. 2 producer and are scrambling to secure metal elsewhere, Reuters reported on April 17 citing industry sources. The U.S. imposed major sanctions on April 6 against seven Russian oligarchs and…
DetailsMechel has rented 10 BelAZ dump trucks within the agreement with the State Transport Leasing Company. According to Mechel statement, the total cost of the agreements is 900 million rubles ($14.5 million). The new machinery with the lifting capacity of 90 tons has already been transported to Korshunovsky Mining and Processing Works. 6 dump trucks…
DetailsIn January-March MMK produced 3.147 million tons of steel, up by 2.7% YoY, but down by 4.4% QoQ. Pig iron output grew by 1.3% YoY, but dropped by 9.4% QoQ, to 2.404 million tons. Metal sales increased by 1.6% QoQ, to 2.83 million tons. Coal concentrate manufacture at MMK-Ugol reached 666 thousand tons, down by…
DetailsThe company with deepest regrets informs, that on April 17 due to a massive traffic accident in Kriviy Rih 8 people died and 21 people got injured, among them most were the employees of PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. Management of PJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih took the decision to provide financial support from the company to…
DetailsUkrgazvydobuvannya has concluded 2 agreements with Interpipe Ukraine LLC for the delivery of pipes valued at 180.93 million UAH. This year the company has to supply 3588 tons of various compressor-pump pipes manufactured by Interpipe Niko Tube LLC at 49698-51552 UAH per ton. Last year Interpipe sold such pipes to Ukrgazvydobuvannya 2% cheaper, at 48419-50545…
DetailsVolyn miners have addressed the Volyn Regional State Administration chairman Alexander Savchenko asking him to help save the Novovolynskaya mine No. 9. The mine union chairman Yuri Kalistratov said that enterprise wanted to remain within the National Coal Company, as this would allow it to operate for some 13 years. “This will keep people, mining…
DetailsRepresentatives from MMK took part in the round table on “The Market of Metals and Metal Structures in the Volga and Southern Urals”. About 70 managers and specialists in metallurgy, metal trading, steel service centers (SSCs), and manufacturers of metal products and structures were invited to the two-day event organized by the Russian Union of…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has once again been included in Living Planet channel and the Modern Media Research Institute (MOMRI)’s bi-annual list of the top ten Russian companies in the fuel and energy and metallurgical sectors for environmental performance. Thanks to good results in the second half of 2017, MMK placed 9th on…
DetailsThe net profit of Russian steelmaker Severstal went up by 28.4% YoY, to $461 million in January-March, as calculated under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the company said in a statement on April 17. Revenue grew by 23%, to $2.173 billion in the period, and operating profit rose by 22.9%, to $585 million. EBITDA increased…
DetailsAnglo Asian Mining PLC (AAM), a producer of gold, copper and silver in Azerbaijan, produced 18,307 ounces of gold in the first quarter of 2018, up by 26% YoY, according to the company report. The company said that such a sharp increase in the gold production was linked with the launch of production at the…
DetailsThe prices of the main precious metals varied in Azerbaijan on April 16, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 9.9705 manats, to 2288.353 manats per troy ounce compared to the price on April 13. The cost of silver increased by 0.2108 manats, to 28.3104 manats per…
DetailsIn February export prices increased by 1.6% from December 2017, while import prices – by 1%. According to the Statistics Committee of the Ministry of the National Economy, iron ore ores became 14.5% more expensive, manganese ores export prices increased by 13.2%, copper – by 13.1%, coal – by 3.9% and zinc – by 2.6%.…
DetailsZhezkazgan Copper Smelting Works will be operating at full capacity, according to Kazakhmys Smelting. The plant will operate 2 ore-smelting furnaces and a sulfur acid shop. In 2009 due to the decrease of available raw materials the works switched to the operation of only 1 smelting furnace. But as the copper-containing raw materials volumes will…
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