A factory workshop for the production of small gold bars will be opened in Kyrgyzstan, the Chairman of the National Bank Tolkunbek Abdygulov stated at the meeting of the parliamentary committee on budget and fiscal policy. According to him, the bank together with Kyrgyzaltyn is working on the opening of the workshop. “We need it…
DetailsIn May Dneprospetsstal produced 21.8 thousand tons of steel, on the April level. Rolled metal manufacture dropped by 0.5% MoM, to 14.3 thousand tons. The total cost of products manufactured in May reached 863929 thousand UAH, up by 2.8% MoM. In January-May DSS produced 107.4 thousand tons of steel and 71.52 thousand tons of rolled…
DetailsAzovstal Iron and Steel Works, a part of Metinvest, is forced to shut down its converter No. 2 from June 26 for essential repairs. The company has to make this move under pressure form environment activists, who claim the converter is seriously damaging the city of Mariupol air. At present Azovstal converters make 22 steel…
DetailsKopy Goldfields (Sweden) has published an adjusted estimate of the JORC mineral resources of the Krasnoye deposits. The licensed territory in the Irkutsk region contains two sites – Krasniy and Vostochniy. The evaluation was carried out by Micon International Co Limited on the basis of prospecting works in February. The deposit resources have increased by…
DetailsDalnevostochnoye Manufacturing and Geological Enterprise, a part of the state geological holding Rosgeologia, intends to start prospecting for gold at the Koshkinskoye field on the island of Shumshu in the Sakhalin region. The geologists will be prospecting the site with the size of 82 square km for 3 years. The enterprise will start working in…
DetailsIn January-May Bikinskoye coal deposits in Primorye region yielded 2.058 million tons of coal. Two companies are operating at the site – Luchegorsk Coal Pit (LUR) and its contractor Petrotrade-M LLC. Of the total volume LUR provided 1.055 million tons of coal with the target of 1.06 million tons. Petrotrade-M mined 1.003 million tons with…
DetailsIn January-May Ukraine mined 13.896 million tons of coal, down by 12% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output dropped by 7.5%, to 2.698 million tons, and that of power-generating coal by 13.1%, to 11.198 million tons. In May Ukraine mined 2.66 million tons of coal, down by 2.3%…
DetailsThe prices of main precious metals increased in Azerbaijan on June 11, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 4.165 manats, to 2,208.4275 manats per ounce compared to the price on June 8. The cost of silver increased by 0.322 manats, to 28.7133 manats per ounce. The…
DetailsTMK Chermet has invested over 80 million rubles in the purchase of 16 units of modern machines, including KamAZs with crane manipulators, Volvo artics and a Liebherr loader. The new machines arrived at the scrap-procuring sites of Yekaterinburg, Volgograd, Saratov and Bataysk. They will considerably increase the speed and volumes of delivery, loading and unloading…
DetailsVSMPO-Avisma has received a loan of 100 million rubles to create a site to process bulk titanium rings. 30% of the sum is provided by the Sverdlovsk-based Fund of industry development, and 70% – by the Federal fund. The company has started assembling the technological line. Vertical borers will be assembled to process titanium rings…
DetailsMetalloinvest will build a heat treatment facility for hot-rolled steel at OEMK. The heat treatment facility will have an annual capacity of 70,000 tons of high-quality (Special Bar Quality, SBQ) bars, and will be established within the enterprise’s finishing plant. The facility will add to the existing heat treatment capacities at OEMK’s rolling plant No.…
DetailsAt the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting (AGM) held on June 8 in Lipetsk, NLMK shareholders voted to confirm Grigory Fedorishin as the Group’s President and Chief Executive Officer; and to elect a new Board of Directors, with a majority of independent directors (five seats out of nine). Nine members of the Board of Directors were…
DetailsThe newly elected Board of Directors of NLMK Group held its first meeting on June 8 following the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting. Vladimir Lisin was re-elected as Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors approved a schedule of the Board meetings and formed Board Committees. Independent directors comprise the majority on two of the…
DetailsAt the Annual General Shareholders’ Meeting (AGM) held on June 8 in Lipetsk, NLMK shareholders approved the payment of FY2017 dividends of 14.04 rubles per share (considering the previously paid interim dividends, the amount outstanding to be paid for Q4 2017 is 3.36 rubles per share). Shareholders also approved the payment of dividends for Q1…
DetailsA worker of the mine of Vertex Gold Company was injured, eyewitnesses reported. The 34-year-old worker was hospitalized in serious condition. He’s in intensive care unit. The mine of the gold mining company is located in Chatkal district of Jalal-Abad region. The main activity of Vertex Gold Company is the development and extraction of minerals.…
DetailsThe rolled metal consumption is expected to grow by 3-3.5% in 2018. According to Denis Dyatlov, MMK Trading House director, consumption will grow in car manufacture and machine-building, and will remain on the same level in pipe industry. Unfortunately, the construction industry shows negative results. In January-April rolled metal consumption dropped by 2%. This year…
DetailsAccording to Igor Malyshev, director of the Fund of pipe industry development, the pipe market is still facing the problem of quality dumping, indicated by a growth of faked products sales, in particular, used pipes, which are sold as new under forged documents. The volume of the shadow market is considerable – over 1 million…
DetailsMarket players expect stabilization of supply and demand in the second half of the year. Small and medium diameter pipes consumption growth is expected on the level of 5%, and seamless pipes – 3%. The second half of the year will see a seasonal increase of demand for small and medium diameter pipes, while the…
DetailsIn January-April exports from Russia totaled $140.2 billion, up by 26.8%. According to the customs statistics, the share of metal grew to 10.7% from 9.9% in January-April 2017. In money terms exports increased by 36.7% YoY, and in physical terms – by 15.4%. Pig iron exports grew by 39.9%, copper and copper alloys – by…
DetailsIn January-April Russian imports totaled $75 billion, up by 18.6% YoY. Far foreign countries accounted for 88.9% of all supplies, while CIS countries – 11.1%. The share of metal grew to 7.2% from 6.8% in January-April 2017. In physical terms imports increased by 26% and in money terms – by 25.2%. Ferrous metals imports grew…
DetailsKAZ Minerals has signed an agreement with Non Ferrous of China on investments into Koksay project. According to the agreement, in exchange for the investments of $70 million NFC will receive 19.4% in the project. “We have successfully worked with NFC at the Bozshakol and Aktogay construction and intend to develop our relations”, the company…
DetailsThe state enterprise Lvivugol has completely cleared the salary debts for April to its miners. According to a company representative, the enterprise received a payment from the state enterprise Ugol Ukrainy (Coal of Ukraine), which allowed paying April salary in full. Soon May salary will also be paid. Earlier miners threatened to go on a…
DetailsIn January-May Ukraine exported 242.684 thousand tons of titanium-containing ores and concentrate valued at $50.296 million, up by 8.6% and by 44.5% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, the Czech Republic imported 22.92% of goods, Turkey 21.7% and Mexico 14.14%. At the same time Ukraine imported 15.457 thousand tons of ores from Senegal…
DetailsDalnevostochnoye Manufacturing and Geological Enterprise, a part of the state geological holding Rosgeologia, is starting prospecting at the Khodzhasky site. By the end of 2020 the enterprise will have prospected some 179 square km. The enterprise will be looking for gold and copper. The fieldworks of 2018 will be the first stage of the prospecting…
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