In January-November Ukraine increased revenue from the export of ferrous metals by 17% YoY, to $9.178 billion. Its share in the overall exports reached 21.22%. According to the State Fiscal Service, metal wares exports grew by 28%, to $1.024 billion (2.37%). At the same time Ukraine imported $1.3 billion worth of ferrous metals and $886.5…
DetailsIn January-November Susumanzoloto extracted 5603.4 kg of gold with the plan being 5257 kg. The group enterprises are developing ore and alluvial gold sites in Magadan region and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). In particular, Drazhnik LLC yielded 1803.6 kg of gold, Chay-Urya zoloto LLC – 852.1 kg, Itkana LLC – 560.1 kg, Astra LLC…
DetailsTikhvin Ferroalloys Works, a part of Yildirim Group, has transferred the exclusive rights to sell high-carbon ferrochromium in Russia to Klyuchevsky Ferroalloys Works, a part of MidUral Group. The high-grade ferrochromium is sold not only in Russia, but is also exported to Europe, USA, Japan and China. The new contract is an important step in…
DetailsOn November 30 – December 6 the metal price index in Central region dropped by 2.17 points (or by 0.37%), to 587.65. Prices grew for hot-rolled sheet (by 0.39%) and for cold-rolled metal (by 0.26%). Rebars showed the most drop – by 1.71%, followed by beams (1.1%). Flat galvanized rolled metal lost 0.88% in price,…
DetailsIn January-November Ukraine exported 320 thousand tons of scrap, down by 28.6% YoY.
In November exports amounted to 3.8 thousand tons.
At the same time deliveries of scrap to local metal plants grew by 17.4%, to 3.04 million tons in 11 months. (Ukrainian metal)
This year ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih has started a program on large-scale repair of buildings and structures. According to the company press-service, the program will last for 3 years – 2018-2020. This year 265 million UAH have been invested in the program. Next year the expenses will amount to 165 million UAH, and during 3 years…
DetailsIn January-November Ukraine mined 30.687 million tons of coal, down by 4.6% YoY. According to the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, coking coal output dropped by 14.2%, to 5.321 million tons, and power-generating coal by 2.3%, to 25.151 million tons. In November coal mining fell by 9.7% YoY, to 2.785 million tons. In 11…
DetailsEnergomashspetsstal will produce 15 rotor rolls for wind plants with the capacity of 4.5 mW for Furlander Windtechnologie. “15 wind plants will be constructed near the city of Kramatorsk by Furlander Windtechnologie. The construction will last for 3 years”, the company said. The total weight of rolls will be 415.5 tons. They are scheduled to…
DetailsPrecious metal prices increased in Azerbaijan on December 10, according to the Central Bank. The price of gold grew by 15.521 manats, to 2,123.6145 manats per ounce on December 10 compared to the price on December 7. The price of silver went up by 0.1844 manats, to 24.8128 manats per ounce. The price of palladium…
DetailsThe price of one ounce of gold increased by 24.82 manats or by 1.19% last week in Azerbaijan, to 2,100.2599 manats. The price of one ounce of silver grew by 0.02864 manats or by 1.18%, to 24.5545 manats. The price of one ounce of platinum decreased by 38.658 manats or by 2.8%, to 1,357.7339 manats.…
DetailsAzerbaijan will receive about 10 billion manats from the development of Filizchay, one of the biggest polymetallic deposits in Europe, Chairman of the Board of AzerGold CJSC Zakir Ibrahimov declared. He said earlier it was assumed that the revenues from the development of this field would amount to 6 billion manats, but recent studies had…
DetailsSince the beginning of its activity AzerGold CJSC has extracted 105,000 ounces of gold and 155,000 ounces of silver at the aboveground part of the Chovdar deposit, Zakir Ibrahimov, chairman of the company, declared. He said that revenues from the sale of these precious metals exceeded 230 million manats. He noted that it was also…
DetailsThe Geopromining project to construct a factory to process silver-polymetallic ore at the Verkhne-Menkeche deposits in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) has been approved. The capacity of the factory will be 300 thousand tons. At present the ore from the deposit is processed at the Serebro Magadana (Polymetal). The reserves of the deposit are 1200…
DetailsA group of people’s deputies have asked the chairman of the Council of the National Security and Protection Alexander Turchinov to include Demurinsky Mining and Processing Works (Dnipro) into the sanction list of Russian enterprises. “Ilmenite, the raw material to manufacture the main war metal – titanium – Russia buys mostly from Ukraine. This titanium…
DetailsIn January-November Ukraine increased the import of coal by 9.9% YoY, to 19.09 million tons. According to the State Fiscal Service, the value of the coal imported stood at $2.693 billion, up by 10.8% YoY. Russia supplied $1.667 billion worth of coal (or 61.91%), USA – $806.34 million (29.94%), Canada – $128.6 million (4.78%) and…
DetailsIn 2018 DTEK financial results improved because of the growth of world coal and gas prices, as well as investments in output increase. In 2 years the world coal prices have increased more than 2-fold, from $42 to $100 per ton. In 13 years DTEK has invested over $7.6 billion in development. In particular, the…
DetailsThe Electrotyazhmash works has concluded 6 agreements with Meta-Lux LLC for the delivery of metal valued at 194.24 UAH. Until the end of 2020 the company has to supply phosphorous-copper alloy at 314 UAH per kg, bronze rods at 281 UAH per kg, 2 types hot-rolled steel sheet at 37200 UAH and 30512 UAH per…
DetailsFerrexpo announces the payment of special dividends of $0.066 per share with the total amount of $40 million, or twice as much as in 2017. The decision has been taken with the view of the improved market situation in H2 2018 and good prospects for 2019. The board of directors will decide on the final…
DetailsThe minister of energy and coal industry Igor Nasalik has suggested increasing the base price of power-generating coal in Ukraine by 10.5%. Thus, the price should grow from the current level of 2535 UAH (without VAT) per ton, set in April, to 2800 UAH. According to Nasalik, the base price increase is necessitated by the…
Details3 DESA filter bags are being installed at the gas-purifying machines at the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Works. The size of the purification is 4 square meters, up 2-fold from the currently used filters. Over 2 thousand innovative filter bags have been installed in the gas-purification system. Since 2004 the company has been able to decrease pollution…
DetailsThe Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has prolonged the regime of exempting operations with ferrous and non-ferrous scrap from VAT till 2022. The corresponding bill has been voted by 248 parliament members with the necessary minimum of 226. VAT on scrap operations was cancelled in 2011. And then, in 2017, it was prolonged till January 1,…
DetailsPetropavlovsk has put into operation the processing of gold-containing concentrate at its first autoclave. As of early December 320 tons have been processed. The extraction is 93%, not much below the targeted 98%. The manufacture of gold from refractory ore, according to the company, will start in Q1 2019. The second autoclave is being commissioned,…
DetailsIn November railroad sales of rolled steel and pipes by the major Russian companies totaled 5.05 million tons, down by 2.2% YoY. Deliveries to the local market dropped by 3.4%, to 2.73 million tons, and exports – by 0.6%, to 2.32 million tons. In January-November deliveries reached 57.8 million tons, up by 2.7% YoY. Local…
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