Head of the State Committee for Industry, Energy and Subsoil Use, Emil Osmonbetov, suggested residents of Ton district of Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan to join the commission that would work at the uranium deposit. He stated this at a meeting with the villagers. Last weekend, an on-site meeting of members of the interdepartmental commission to…
DetailsCollecting of signatures under a petition, demanding to ban development of Tash-Bulak uranium deposit in Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan, started on social networking sites. The author of the petition is some Alena Khromenko. She invites everyone to sign the petition on a special site. As of today, 7,495 people have signed the petition with the…
DetailsCivil activists have held a flash mob “We are against uranium” near the monument to Urkuya Salieva in Bishkek. Organizer of the event was Ak-Zhol Ytymagi Public Foundation. Director of the foundation told reporters that he did not trust the company that wanted to develop Tash-Bulak uranium deposit in Issyk-Kul region. The activist demanded from…
DetailsGerman company Aurum Deutschland AG will build a mining and metallurgical plant in the Kordai district of the Zhambyl region. The major construction project was discussed at a meeting of Zhambyl regional administration with representatives of German business. The idea of the project arose after Nursultan Nazarbayev urged German investors to invest in Kazakhstani projects…
DetailsThe price of one ounce of gold decreased by 22.831 manats or by 1.04% last week in Azerbaijan. Accordingly, the average price of one ounce of gold stood at 2,176.0646 manats. The price of one ounce of silver increased by 0.0832 manats or by 0.3%, to 25.4735 manats. The price of one ounce of platinum…
DetailsBelarus will resume negotiations with Sudan on the second site for gold extraction after the situation in the country is stabilized, Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Minister Andrei Khudyk declared. The second site has been chosen but conditions for using it have not been totally agreed upon. “We will definitely keep an eye on…
DetailsIn January-March, Kremenchuk Steel Works produced 4292 tons of casting, down by 27.7% YoY. Moreover, the plant is forced to fire over 500 employees in March-April. This is done in order to bring the number of employees to the order volume and the debt to Ukrzaliznytsia. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsSANY cutter-loader machinery has been tested at the Capitalnaya mine of the Mirnogradugol state enterprise. According to the chairman of the Donetsk regional military-civilian administration Alexander Kuts, the state will finance the creation of four more long faces to develop the mine. The cost of the machinery is 208.6 million UAH. The financing comes from…
DetailsThe volume of transportation of mining and metallurgical cargo via the Dnepr River could grow 2-fold, to 2.5 million tons. But so far the depth of the river does not correspond to the sizes of ships necessary to transport such cargo. At present the ships with the capacity of 6 thousand tons are operating at…
DetailsFrom now on DCH Steel Management will manage the operation of both Sukhaya Balka and Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works. Still, this is not enough to make a full vertically integrated mining and metallurgical group. Coal mining and ore processing are the group’s weak links. In 5 years DCH intends to invest $150-200 million in…
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