In January-May Irkutsk region yielded 6902 kg of gold, up by 15% YoY. In particular, ore gold output totaled 5662 kg, and alluvial gold – 129 kg. 6 companies provided for the most output. Polyus Verninskoye mined 2923.6 kg of gold, Vysochaishiy – 1813 kg, Ugakhan – 649 kg, Lenzoloto – 451 kg, Vitim –…
DetailsSeverstal has supplied around 40 thousand tons of various rolled metal for the construction of all the 12 stadiums, which will host the FIFA World Cup. When constructing the arenas, Severstal’s sheets and rebars were used. Metal was supplied both from the manufacturing site in the city of Cherepovets and from Severstal Bar Works Balakovo.…
DetailsStalTrans, a subsidiary of the Russian railway operator Freight One, has signed a 467.771-million ruble agreement to buy rail wheels from Interpipe-M, a unit of Ukraine’s Interpipe, Freight One said in a statement. Interpipe-M is to supply the rail wheels by July. Freight One also said that it planned to buy rail wheels from StalTrans…
DetailsMetalloinvest has signed a long-term loan agreement with Credit Agricole CIB (France). According to the company statement, the loan of 72 million euros will be attracted for 12 years under the Euler Hermes Aktiengesellschaft guarantees. Metalloinvest intends to spend the money to purchase Takraf GmbH machinery. The machinery will be stationed at the Lebedinsky Mining…
DetailsNLMK Group, a global steel company, is designing equipment to implement stamp charging process at Altai-Koks. This will boost coke quality and reduce the cost of its production through use of more cost-efficient grades of coking coals. Stamping technology is under implementation at coke plant No. 5, launched in 2006 with a design capacity of…
DetailsLocal residents are dissatisfied with the development of Ishtamberdy gold field in Chatkal district of Jalal-Abad region. They held a protest. Residents are unhappy that the developer Full Gold Mining does not comply with environmental standards. As the State Committee of Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use reported, officials intend to visit the field and sort…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a new decree on scrap procurement. Uzvtortsvetmet was ordered in two months to organize in all cities and district centers special points of acceptance of scrap from individuals. All the equipment containing ferrous and non-ferrous metals from January 1, 2019 will have to be submitted to Uzmetcombinat and Uzvtortsevtmet…
DetailsA miner died at the Rodina mine of the Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Industrial Complex.
The 32-year old employee was carrying out hazardous work.
According to the police, the preliminary reason of death is the electric shock. (Ukrainian metal)
The channel capacity of the Kamysh-Zarya – Volnovakha route, through which raw materials are delivered to iron and steel works in Mariupol, is still below the desired level. “The Mariupol direction is still problematic. Only 18-22 pairs of cargo trains per day pass there, while the full operation of Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works…
DetailsUkrainian scrap procurers and metal companies ask the members of the Verkhovna Rada to pass the decree on de-shadowing of the scrap market. The draft decree presupposes making amendments to the current laws of scrap metal, accounting and to the Criminal Code. The decree cancels the division of the scrap into household and industrial and…
DetailsDneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine, a part of the Industrial Union of Donbass, and the authorities of the city of Kamenskoye have signed a memorandum of cooperation to improve environment. The document has been signed by the city mayor Andrey Belousov and the company CEO Alexander Podkorytov. DMK is actively participating in the infrastructure development.…
DetailsIn 2018 Ukraine witnesses the falling of ferrous scrap procuring. In 5 months procurement totaled 1.51 million tons. “Since early March ArcelorMittal Kirviy Rih has been excluded from scarp procurement list. That’s some 30-40 thousand tons per month”, the UAVtormet association president and Keramet CEO Vladimir Bubley said. According to him, scrap procurement has also…
DetailsPrime Minister Mukhammdekaliy Abylgaziev has ordered to find the investor to extract gold from Makmal tailings. The mine was commissioned in 1986. The enterprise used to employ 3 thousand people and yield 250 kg of gold per month. This year the government reported of the complete thinning of the resources. Investors can be offered the…
DetailsPolyus intends to put the Sukhoi Log gold deposits in Irkutsk region in operation by 2026. So far the company has bored 43 thousand running meters. The capacity of the factory is expected to be 30 million tons of ore per year. Extraction share will reach 88-90%. Average annual output will be 1.6 million ounces…
DetailsThe Moscow Coke-Gas Works has begun the final stage of the gasholder construction to regulate gas pressure in the gas system of the company. The total amount of investments is 114 million rubles. This is the first gasholder construction in Russia in the past 30 years. The gasholder is expected to be put into operation…
DetailsIn May industrial prices in Ukraine grew by 0.8% YoY after a zero growth in April, an increase of 0.3% in March, 1.2% in February and 4.4% in January. According to the State Statistics Service, coal became 4.3% more expensive, while coke – 3.6%. Since the beginning of the year industrial prices have grown by…
DetailsUkrainian companies can count on being excluded from the US steel and aluminum sanctions lists. “We believe that we can seriously rely on being excluded from the duties lists. US is rather seriously reviewing our arguments”, deputy minister of economical development and trade, trade representative of Ukraine Natalia Mikolskaya said following the negotiations with US…
DetailsCorum Group will become a heavy engineering arm of the country’s biggest energy group, DTEK Energy. The company will retain its brand and continue operations in Ukraine and internationally. Corum businesses that have joined DTEK Energy will continue to operate on competitive external markets both in Ukraine and abroad. Moreover, Corum will keep its brand…
DetailsIn 2017 Trading House MMK sold 1.2 million tons of metal valued at over 46 billion rubles.
The share of the end customers reached 65%.
TH MMK, an official seller of MMK products, has 30 divisions in Russia and 5 in Kazakhstan.
Its strategic regions are the Urals, Povolzhye and Siberia. (Ukrainian metal)
Elgaugol LLC has put into operation 2 Volvo loaders. The new machines to load coal have the capacity of up to 200 thousand tons per month. The special construction of the ladle with the volume of 12 cubic meters makes it easier to load coal, resulting in the speed up of the operation and the…
DetailsHundreds of Krasniy Octyabr employees stopped working and went on a strike. The reason was the news on the labor condition changes because of the FIFA World Cup. The workers were enraged by the tiny salary they would receive during the forced delay in the company operation. According to FIFA environment demands, since May 25…
DetailsAn employee of a contractor company perished at the Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works. The accident with the employee of the Azov Bud-Proekt LLC happened on June 8. The welder fell into the skip pit while working at the blast furnace No. 5. The blast furnace shop of Mariupol Ilyich operates 5 furnaces with…
DetailsThis year Zaporizhstal will invest some 34 million UAH in the improvement of the working conditions of its employees. According to the company statement, 19 premises with the combined size of 6 thousand square meters will be repaired. Earlier the company has already assembled crane conditioners in the sheet-rolling shop, cold-rolling shop No. 1 and…
DetailsAltai-Koks will invest some 4 billion rubles in modernization of the coke-oven plant No. 5. “We’re operating on 5 coke-oven plants, and the fifth one will be reconstructed, we’re switching to the ramming technique. It will increase the efficiency of the plant. The project will be carried out in 2 years”, the company CEO Pavel…
DetailsRosterminalugol, operator of Russia’s largest dedicated coal port (run by Port Management Company, PMC LLC) has shipped 10 million tons of export coal year-to-date. According to the stevedoring company, the milestone ton was loaded onto the Panamax ship Robert Oldendorff. This result was achieved on June 8 (in 2017 – on June 12). From the…
DetailsA 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…
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