Dalgeophysica, a part of the state holding Rosgeologia, has finished the second stage of prospecting in Khabarovsk region. The prospecting will be complete in late 2018, but even now the specialists do not doubt that the Ponyisky site will be one of the largest gold-quartz and gold-copper-porphyritic deposits in the world. The size of the…
DetailsA pool of banks will provide Norilsk Nickel with a loan of $2.5 billion. Among roughly 15 lenders will be Raiffeisenbank, Unicredit Bank, China Construction Bank, Citibank, HSBC, J. P. Morgan, etc. The total sum of the deal, including interest and commissions, is 18.14% of Nornickel assets cost as of September 30. At that time…
DetailsIn January-November Russia produced 47.6 million tons of pig iron, up by 0.3% YoY. In November output increased by 1.9% YoY and by 0.9% MoM. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, rolled metal output in 11 months increased by 0.7% YoY, to 55.5 million tons. In November the results decreased by 6.8% YoY…
DetailsThe governor of Kuzbass Aman Tuleyev wants to limit granting of coal licenses in the region and decrease output to 200 million tons. Officially, to decrease damages to the environment. This year 5 auctions for coal development have been cancelled. The existing mines provide enough coal. Over 100 coal companies operate in the region, including…
DetailsIn 2020 Glencore plans to commission the Zhairem Mining and Processing Works with the capacity of 160 thousand tons of zinc per year. This asset will replace the Maleevsky and Tishinsky mines, the operation of which will be stopped in 2023. Glencore expects the demand for zinc on world markets to grow in the next…
DetailsMining and metallurgic company Norilsk Nickel plans to issue green Eurobonds until the end of 2018, Deputy Chairman of the Board Andrei Bugrov said at a central bank meeting. “There have been no green bond issues on the domestic market yet. Norilsk Nickel is discussing an option to issue the instrument to support a program…
DetailsUnder the first stage of the investment project Naberezhniye Chelny Pipe Works has purchased equipment and started producing casing pipes for oil and gas industry. The manufacture started on the leased territories at the Chelny industrial park. The annual capacity of 48 thousand tons of pipes is expected to be reached by early 2020. “We…
DetailsSince the beginning of the year Rusolovo has mined 1 thousand tons of tin concentrate, up by 60% YoY, and a historical record for the company. “This year has become a key one as to the development of our manufacturing base and reaching new producing heights. Not only have we carried out a large repair…
DetailsAccording to preliminary results, in 2017 Primorsky Mining and Processing Works will produce 2700 tons of tungsten concentrate and 1600 tons of copper concentrate. In 9 months output was down by 5% YoY. By the end of the year the difference will have decreased to 2%. Primorsky GOK is developing the Vostok-2 deposits. The company…
DetailsThe United Pipe Company has for the fourth year in a row been named the best supplier of industrial products and goods for the oil and gas industry (pipes). “The TMK products are associated with quality and reliability in Russia, as well as abroad. The fourth award is yet another confirmation of this”, TMK deputy…
DetailsMechel-Steel, a subsidiary of the Russian metals and mining company Mechel, and Kyrgyzstan’s state railway company Kyrgyz Temir Zholy have signed a letter of intent to expand cooperation, Mechel said in a statement. The letter stipulates that the companies will develop system-wide cooperation aimed at exchanges of information on products, and on supplies of rolled…
DetailsUkraine in January-November increased coal imports in monetary terms 1.87-fold YoY, to $2.431 billion, according to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. Russia remained the major supplier of coal over the period under review, accounting for 56.4% of total supplies worth $1.37 billion, the report said. It is followed by the United States (24.8%, $603.8…
DetailsOn the Near East market Interpipe’s main customers are the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. “We have strong connections with clients in the region, both in oil and gas and construction sectors. 58.5% of all our deliveries fall on oil and gas projects. UAE accounted for 25% of them, Turkey – 18% and Egypt –…
DetailsIn November Russia supplied some 280 thousand tons of coal illegally taken from the occupied Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine to Europe, up by 18.6% MoM, or by 44 thousand tons. The largest exporters of Donbass coal are companies, controlled to the fugitive Ukrainian businessman Sergey Kurchenko. In particular, in October his two companies…
DetailsAzerbaijan, one of the richest in precious metals deposits countries in Eurasia, has increased gold and silver mining. The country produced 5,669 kg of gold in January-November, up 3.2-fold YoY. The State Statistics Committee reported that the extraction of silver increased by 67.9%, amounting to 566.800 kg. The stocks of finished goods, as of December…
DetailsRussian oligarch Alisher Usmanov is interested in Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, a Ukrainian enterprise earlier seized by Russia-backed militants in the occupied Donbas, according to a Ukrainian MP, coordinator of Information Resistance analytical group Dmytro Tymchuk. Leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (“DPR”) are failing to revive operations of most of the “nationalized”…
DetailsIn 2018 Ukraine intends to invest 2.5 billion UAH in modernization of coal enterprises. “We’re switching to the management mode, when every mine is responsible for its efficiency. Restructuring the industry will let the country save some 1.5 billion UAH”, the minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik said. Still until the document on…
DetailsMetinvest has stopped supplying hot-rolled coils to EU after the introduction of the fixed duty of 60.5 euro per ton. Still, according to the company marketing director Roman Kurashev, Metinvest has not completely abandoned the market. “We sell coils there from our European works”, he said. He noted, that Metinvest reoriented its exports from EU…
DetailsThe Saranskaya, Abayskaya, named after Kuzembaeva and named after Kostenko mines have resumed operation. According to ArcelorMittal Temirtau press service, at present the company is evaluating the resumption of operation at other mines. AMT management offered miners to increase their salary by 30%. During the strike the coal for metallurgical operation was purchased from other…
DetailsEn+ Group, belonging of Oleg Deripaska and owning 48.13% of Rusal, has attracted VEB to two aluminum projects. In particular, VEB will invest 18.5 billion rubles in the construction of the first stage of TaAZ with the capacity of 420 thousand tons per year, and 7.7 billion rubles on the creating of aluminum plates manufacture…
DetailsMagnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works has been named one of the World Wildlife Fund’s Top Ten most environmentally responsible mining and metallurgic companies in Russia in 2017. MMK came eighth place in a list, the highest achievement for Russia’s iron and steel companies. The results of the study were presented at the UN office in…
DetailsThe mining site No. 1 of the Pershotravenskoye Mine Group of DTEK Pavlogradugol has mined 1 million tons of coal since the beginning of the year. It is planned that this and other sites will outperform their annual output target. “Some 10 years ago this was an unachievable result. At that time for all the…
DetailsTitanium Investments LLC, previously Crimean Titanium, situated in the Russia-annexed Crimea, intends to start constructing a new titanium dioxide shop valued at 31.2 billion rubles in 2020. According to the program of Crimea development, designed by the occupational authorities, the capacity of the shop will be 80+40 thousand tons per year. Titanium Investments (Moscow) was…
DetailsKachkanarsky Mining and Processing Works has produced the 200-millionth ton of pellets. The anniversary batch was shipped to Evraz NTMK, where pellets are used in pig iron manufacture. KGOK annual output is around 6 million tons of pellets with the Fe content of over 60%. The company started manufacturing pellets in 1970. The first batch…
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