This year work will start on the largest tin deposit Syrymbet. Tin Yan Mining, the investor company, has confirmed that the excavation will start in May. Investment in the project this year will total 4 billion tenge. The project will be completed in 2021 with the total volume of investment of 100 billion tenge. (Ukrainian…
DetailsKolmar has assembled machinery for underground coal extraction at the Denisovskaya mine with the length of 300 meters. “This will increase the monthly coal output to 250 thousand tons”, the company CEO Artem Levin said. Last year Kolmar commissioned a new 6-million ton factory and started constructing the rock excavations for the Vostochnaya Denisovskaya mine.…
DetailsIn 2018 DTEK exported 486.3 thousand tons of coal, down by 35% YoY. All coal is exported by Obukhovskaya Mine Group. The decrease has to do with the growth of the sales to the Ukrainian market to minimize the anthracite coal shortage. Last year DTEK supplied 1.5 million tons of anthracite to Ukraine, up by…
DetailsAccording to the authorities of the Magadan region, as of January 1, there were 168 enterprises with license for subsoil use in the region. Of them 100 were developing alluvial gold and 9 – ore gold and silver. Last year 37 tons of gold were extracted, up by 4 tons YoY. In 2 years gold…
DetailsSeverstal Steel Decisions has finished supplying metal structures for the construction of Kola Iron and Steel Company objects. The total weight of the structures was 825 tons. “So far this is one of the northernmost projects fulfilled by the company”, director Denis Chetverikov said. All the metal structures are covered with corrosion-resistant coating and the…
DetailsBratsk Aluminum Works has successfully passed an audit for the correspondence to the ship classification requirements (DNV-GL-RU-SHIP) and has received a certificate for the alloys used in shipbuilding. The audit has been carried out at the request of the Kamensk-Uralsky Iron and Steel Works (KUMZ), which manufactures and supplies products to the shipbuilding plants. As…
DetailsThe net profit of the Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel rose by 44% YoY, to $3.059 billion in 2018, as calculated under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Revenue increased by 28%, to $11.67 billion, while earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) grew by 56%, to $6.231 billion. The EBITDA margin rose to 53%…
DetailsRussian metals giant Norilsk Nickel expects an 800,000-ounce palladium deficit in 2019, as demand will outstrip supply, the company said. The price of palladium has been hitting historic highs recently due to low supply and high demand from auto producers that strive to meet strict environmental norms. This year palladium is becoming a preferable metal…
DetailsAccording to Worldsteel, steel output in January totaled 146.7 million tons, up by 1% YoY. China produced the most steel as usual – 75.01 million tons, up by 4.35%. Chinese share in the world output is 51.1%. Ukraine is still on the 13th place, having produced 1.85 million tons of steel, down by 4.9% YoY.…
DetailsIn January Ferrexpo exported 939.7 thousand tons of iron ore pellets. In particular, Poltava GOK shipped 750.7 thousand tons and Yeristovo GOK – 189 thousand tons. Metalloinvest (Russia) exported 435.6 thousand tons of pellets (Mikhailovsky GOK – 364.2 thousand tons and Lebedinsky GOK – 71.4 thousand tons). Metinvest exported 369.3 thousand tons of pellets (Central…
DetailsArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih will increase funding to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) for its employees: from 81.7 million UAH in 2018 to 96.3 million UAH in 2019. A part of PPE has already arrived at the enterprise. There are new products in addition to traditional PPE – heavy-duty clothes and shoes with steel caps, earplugs,…
DetailsIn January Ukraine exported $287.21 million worth of flat rolled metal, up by 33.9% YoY. According to the State Fiscal Service, imports dropped by 6.3%, to $46.2 million. Compared with December 2018 exports grew by 19.5%, while imports fell by 7.1%. The largest deliveries were made to Poland ($24.719 million). (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsThe Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to develop suggestions on the upgrading of the scrap sphere. The suggestions should touch the rules of scrap procurement and sales, including using digital platforms. The suggestions should be ready by May 31. The Russian scrap market is estimated at 1 trillion rubles per year. (Ukrainian…
DetailsIn 2018 Severstal Distribution transported 2 million tons of rolled metal, up by 70% YoY. 95% of cargo was transported by sea and river transport, as well as automobiles. Water transportation volumes doubled: to Russia 100 thousand tons were supplied, and to the European markets – 1 million tons. Automobile transportation increased by 30%, to…
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