Gold production of Polyus increased by 19% YoY, but fell by 6% QoQ, to 600,700 ounces in January-March, the company said in a statement on April 23. Sales grew by 24% YoY, but dropped by 11% QoQ, to 570,000 ounces. Production on the Olimpiada deposit rose by 17%, to 248,300 ounces, on Blagodatnoye by 3%,…
DetailsPrime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziev instructed to suspend work at the uranium deposit in Kyzyl-Ompol area, the Information Policy Department of the Government’s Executive Office reported. The head of the Cabinet held a meeting on the activities of YurAsia company in Kyrgyzstan. An interdepartmental working group was formed on December 31, 2018. Its participants…
DetailsRally at Tash-Bulak uranium deposit ended after a meeting with members of the Parliament, local journalist Anara Azhybekova reported. According to her, a meeting of local residents with members of Parliament Abdybek Duishaliev and Altynbek Zhunus uulu took place at the uranium deposit. “MPs listened to the demands of local residents to ban the development…
DetailsIn February, according to the customs statistics, Russia exported 312.3 thousand tons of ferrous scrap, down by 17.8% YoY. In January-February exports fell by 22.6% YoY, to 559 thousand tons. Turkey accounted for some 35% of exports, down by 39%. The share of Belarus decreased by 4.1%, to 30.6%, and of South Korea – by…
DetailsIn January-March, Kazakhstan produced 22738 kg of raw and semi-wrought gold, up by 7.3% YoY. Silver output dropped by 4.9%, to 230237 kg. At the same time the manufacture of raw aluminum and aluminum oxide decreased by 9.7%, to 395864 tons, lead – by 16.8%, to 32408 tons, zinc – by 2.9%, to 80191 tons,…
DetailsIn 2018 mining companies paid 6.07 billion rubles of taxes to the Khabarovsk region budget, up by 9.1% YoY. Polymetal enterprises accounted for some 43% of the taxes paid – 2.639 billion rubles. In particular, Resursy Albazino LLC paid 2.005 billion rubles, up by 570 million rubles YoY. Rusolovo enterprises paid 50 million rubles of…
DetailsIn 2020 Rusolovo intends to complete the modernization of the Solnechnaya factory at the Festivalnoye deposit in Khabarovsk region. Investments will reach 1.4 billion rubles. After modernization the factory will be producing 1.2 thousand tons of tin concentrate per year. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January-March, the service metal center of Severstal Distribution in Riga produced 65 thousand tons of metal, up by 2.5% from the previous record set in Q2 2018. Moreover, for the first time in March the enterprise produced 13.4 thousand tons of hot-rolled metal in one month. In the past several years Riga SMC has…
DetailsSeverstal – Bar Works Balakovo has finished scheduled capital repairs of the main and auxiliary machinery. The cost of the repair exceeded 40 million rubles. The repair covered machinery in the electric steel smelting shop. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January-March, Russia decreased production of unalloyed steel and semi-finished products by 0.2% YoY. In March the output totaled 4.8 million tons, down by 7.4% YoY and by 0.1% MoM. According to the Federal Service of State Statistics, stainless steel manufacture dropped by 14.3% YoY, but grew by 13.4% MoM, to 14.3 thousand tons. In…
DetailsRostov Electrometallurgical Works LLC has been declared bankrupt. The claims to the company amount to 10.4 billion rubles. REMZ is one of the largest metal companies in the Rostov region. Its capacity is 730 thousand tons of steel and 530 thousand tons of bars per year. Revenue in 2017 totaled 1.09 billion rubles, and net…
DetailsRussia’s United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has launched construction of a 50-billion ruble seamless pipes facility at its subsidiary Vyksa Iron and Steel Works. “The goal of the project is to satisfy current and future demand in line and threaded seamless pipes, including pipelines for difficult production conditions and directional drilling by oil and gas companies…
DetailsInterdepartmental Commission has visited uranium deposit and measured the background radiation level, YurAsia company reported. The radiation background in the camp ranges from 30 to 72 micro-roentgens per hour, and at the quarry – 75 micro-roentgens per hour. The radiation background rose to 130 micro-roentgens per hour at the mining site. After the completion of…
DetailsDTEK has limited electricity supplies to the state enterprise Mine named after Surgay in Ugledar, Donetsk region. “On April 22, the electricity supplies to the mine were limited because of the debt of 322.5 million UAH”, the company said. The Ministry of energy, the State Service of the energy supervision and the city council of…
DetailsIn March, Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine produced 231.404 thousand tons of metal, up by 1.2% from the target. The works also produced 346.741 thousand tons of sinter (+3.5%), 202.638 thousand tons of pig iron (+4.3%) and 227.905 thousand tons of steel (+0.8%). The rolling shop manufactured 60.509 thousand tons of metal, with pipe site…
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