Last week the price of one ounce of gold in Azerbaijan increased by 5.746 manats or by 0.2568%. Accordingly, the average price of one ounce of gold stood at 2,236.57525 manats. The price of one ounce of silver increased by 0.2795 manats or by 0.994%, to 28.1539 manats. The price of one ounce of platinum…
DetailsThe Belozerskaya mine site No. 2 of the DTEK Dobropolyeugol Mine Group mined 93 thousand tons of coal in April, up by 20 thousand tons MoM. On April 29 they set a record of coal mining, having obtained 5410 tons. Average daily output at the site is 3208 tons of coal. The combined coal output…
DetailsThe Lugansk state military-civilian administration has presented to the Ministry of energy and coal industry the projects to open new long faces. In particular, these are the long face 13th Western at the Carbonite mine and the 4th Northern long face at the Gornaya mine of the state enterprise Pervomayskugol. The estimated coal reserves of…
DetailsIn April direct deliveries of ferrous metals (pig iron, rolled metal, pipes and semi-finished products) to the major domestic automobile holdings (AvtoVAZ, KamAZ, GAS, Zil, Sollers, etc.) via railroad totaled 95.6 thousand tons, up by 4.5% MoM, but down by 1.3% YoY. In March the results were +17.4% and +6.9%, while in February –9.9% and…
DetailsIn January-April Amur region obtained 5485.6 kg of gold, including 5433 kg of ore gold and 51.6 kg of alluvial gold, down by 11% YoY. In April the output totaled 1243.8 kg, down by 17% YoY. The drop in output has to do with the halt of operations at the Pokrovskoye deposits and the scheduled…
DetailsNovolipetsk Iron and Steel Works has started the program to replace the locomotive fleet, under which the company has already received 3 new TEM9 locomotives. Such machines have not previously been used by the company. They will replace the outdated TEM1 locomotives. In the next 5 years NLMK railroad fleet will get 27 new locomotives,…
DetailsCorum Druzhkovka Machine-Building Works has produced a skip for the Obukhovskaya Mine Group. The volume of the skip body is 25 cubic meters. The machine is able to get over 23 tons of mined materials to the surface in one go. The total length of the machine is 17.6 meters. Previously Corum Druzhkovka has produced…
DetailsIn 2017 the state enterprise Vostochniy Mining and Processing Works produced 836.1 tons of uranium concentrate and mined 647.3 thousand tons of uranium ore, all down by 16.8% and by 19.9% YoY respectively. In 2011 VostGOK produced 890 tons of concentrate, in 2012 – 960.2 tons, in 2013 – 922.3 tons, in 2014 – 925.7…
DetailsUral Mining and Metallurgical Company will invest about 3.5 billion rubles in development of Gaysky GOK, which exceeds equivalent figures for 2017 by 1 billion (by 34%). Over half the investment budget, about 2.25 billion rubles is planned to be channeled into implementing a project “Underground mine development” on the level of 830-1310 m. “The…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers asks the Verkhovnaya Rada to cancel the prohibition for women to work in harmful conditions and underground. The corresponding decision was taken at the government meeting on May 10. In particular, it was suggested to eliminated a certain clause in the Labor Code and denounce the International Labor Organization convention on…
DetailsSumy Machine-Building Scientific Enterprise has produced liquid-packet ring pumps for ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih. The capacity of the pumps is 300 cubic meters per second. AMKR will receive 3 pumps. The weight of each machine is 13 tons. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn April Energomashspetsstal produced and shipped 263 tons of goods to the European companies of ArcelorMittal. According to the company statement, the rolls were shipped to AM works in Spain, Romania, France, Belgium and Germany. The EMSS rolls will be used in cold- and hot-rolling mills. One roll weighing 39.4 tons was shipped to Voestalpine…
DetailsThe prices of main precious metals increased in Azerbaijan on May 11, according to the data published by the Central Bank. The cost of gold increased by 7.1825 manats, to 2243.2775 manats per troy ounce compared to the price on May 10. The cost of silver increased by 0.2671 manats, to 28.3985 manats per ounce.…
DetailsA fire raging 500 meters under the ground of the Raspadskaya in the Kemerovo region stopped its operations and forced evacuation of 195 miners, a source in the regional emergency services reported. “Operations of the mine have been suspended. The systems of ventilation and life support are working normally,” the source said. In 2010 two…
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