Severniy Katpar LLC has started developing a pre-feasibility study for the construction of a mine at the Severniy Katpar tungsten deposit. The study will be prepared by a local enterprise – Kazgioprtsvetmet LLC (Kazakhstan main institute of non-ferrous metallurgy enterprises design). In 73 years, the institute has participated in the development of projects for some…
DetailsSeverniy Mining and Processing Works has revealed its investment program for the year. The company intends to start hot testing of the technological line of the second stage of the cyclic and continuous technology at the Pervomaysky quarry. Three electric filters at the LURGI 552 A pelletizing machine will be replaced. This will allow decreasing…
DetailsIn January-April, Ukraine produced 275.9 thousand tons of pipes, down by 28.3% YoY. Ukrtruboprom association companies decreased output by 37.1%, to 180.6 thousand tons. In particular, Interpipe NTZ produced 53.4 thousand tons of pipes (-40.1%), Interpipe NMTZ – 23.5 thousand tons (-38%) and Interpipe Niko Tube – 96.2 thousand tons (-32.2%). Dneprovsky Pipe Works produced…
DetailsIn January-April, Ukraine procured 913 thousand tons of scrap, down by 12% YoY. 901 thousand tons (98.7%) accounted for imported scrap. Export decreased by 59%, to 12 thousand tons. In April, metal companies received 13.1% more scrap than needed – 220.6 thousand tons as opposed to the need of 195 thousand tons. The largest scrap…
DetailsIn January-March, the volume of capital investments in metal industry decreased by 13.2% YoY, to 4.6 billion UAH. According to the State Statistics Service, the share of metal industry was 30.1% of all industrial investments. Investments in mining dropped by 31.3%, to 9.7 billion UAH. Their share was 31.7%. In 2019, capital investments in metal…
DetailsRussia’s gold output rose by 9.29% YoY, to 343.54 tons in 2019, the Finance Ministry said citing the data on raw materials supplies to the refining plants. Mined gold output rose by 8.22%, to 286.05 tons, and by-product gold output by 23.14%, to 19 tons, while secondary gold production grew by 11.31%, to 38.49 tons.…
DetailsDneprovsky Iron and Steel Works has finished all repair works and is preparing to resume operation after a 7-month pause. DCH program presupposes investments of $300 million during 5 years in DCH Steel (DMZ and Sukhaya Balka). After repair, the works is gradually launching the operation of its blast furnace, oxygen-converter and rolling shops. DMZ…
DetailsAfter capital repairs, Azovstal is launching its blast furnace No. 4. Investments in the repairs amounted to 21 million UAH. The blast furnace was shut down because of the drop in metal demand. In order not to waste time, the company has carried out repairs at the furnace. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsAleksandrovskaya 1 LLC intends to extract 200 kg of gold in this year washing season. The company will continue developing the Jalon and Juvaskit deposits in Amur region. Aleksandrovskaya 1 has already started the washing season, which will traditionally last till November. Last year the company extracted 170 kg of gold. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn April, Ukraine decreased steel output by 30.9% YoY, to 1.339 million tons. Thus, the country has fallen to the 15th place in the World Steel Association rating from the 12th. China traditionally was the leader with 85.033 million tons of steel produced, down by 0.2%. In 4 months Ukraine produced 6.657 million tons of…
DetailsAt present the situation at Energomashspetsstal is stable. “In February, average salary totaled 18795.6 UAH, up by 24% YoY. In 2019 we manufactured products worth 2,260 million UAH and sold 85.8% of them valued at 1.94 billion UAH”, the company CEO Vitaliy Gnezdinskiy reported. EMSS has an order portfolio for two years. This year it…
DetailsAzerGold company stated that its production operations were not disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis recently and that it had exported 6,769.37 ounces of gold and 15,758.29 ounces of silver worth a total of $12.2 million (AZN 20.7 million). CJSC AzerGold has used alternative transportation for export, taking into account the sharp rise in prices for…
DetailsDneprovsky Iron and Steel Works is not operating and is carrying out reconstruction. In particular, the company has announced a purchase of services on the disassembly of out-of-work objects (metal structures, machinery, pipelines, etc). The work has to be carried out in 2020. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsUnder the project to modernize machinery at the pelletizing site, Central Mining and Processing Works has installed a Haver Scarabaeus bowl granulator. Investments totaled EUR 941 thousand. The capacity of the new granulator is 20-25% higher than of the old one. (Ukrainian metal)
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