For the past 10 years Severstal has decreased the volume of industrial wastes at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works by 58%. The decrease has to do with the sale of secondary products. This helps decrease the volume of industrial wastes, accumulated at the landfill. At present the company sells over 20 types of wastes. Last…
DetailsNovosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, a unit of the Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL, exported more than 300 kilograms of metal uranium to France in 2017, Alexander Yevseyev, the plant’s director for production, said on February 13. “This is the first delivery within a large contract. The client was satisfied, and we will continue cooperation,” he…
DetailsThe mining of lead and zinc ores at the Pavlovskoye deposits in Novaya Zemlya is expected to begin in 2023. According to the Arkhangelsk region governor Igor Orlov, prospecting in the area was completed in 2017. The State commission on natural resources believes that the reserves of the Novaya Zemlya are over 47 million tons…
DetailsIn January Kimkano-Sutarsky Mining and Processing Works LLC produced 180 thousand tons of iron ore concentrate. Last year the company produced 2 million tons of iron ore concentrate and this year expects to increase output to 3.2 million tons. KSGOK is a part of IRC ltd. It was created on the basis of Kimkanskoye and…
DetailsIn 2017 Tajikistan set a new record in gold mining – 5.5 tons, up by 11.2% YoY. All the metal produced was purchased by the National Bank of Tajikistan. In 2016 the bank bought 4 tons of gold. This year gold output is expected to grow by 20% YoY, to 6.6 tons. In the past…
DetailsAs of February 1 Magadan region mined 1317.4 kg of gold and 51.6 tons of silver. According to the regional ministry of natural resources, gold output grew by 41.5% YoY, or by 386.6 kg. At the same time silver mining decreased by 14.6%, or by 8.8 tons. The decrease has to do with the scheduled…
DetailsSayanogorsk and Khakassk Aluminum Works of Rusal in 2017 produced 824 thousand tons of aluminum. Aluminum alloys output grew by 12% YoY, to 474 thousand tons. The increase in output was the result of a complex modernization work. “Aluminum alloys are products with high added value, thus the increase of their output is one of…
DetailsIn 2017 Izhstal increased stainless steel output by 11% YoY. According to the company press-service, stainless steel manufacture reached 17.4 thousand tons. Over 35% of this was produced by the continuous casting machine. In 2016 its share was 20%. All in all the works mastered the manufacture of over 1.8 thousand steel grades, including 300…
DetailsPJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, the largest producer of palladium and refined nickel in the world, and LLC Russian Platinum have signed a framework agreement on strategic partnership. According to the agreement, the parties will establish a joint venture to develop disseminated ore deposits in the Norilsk Industrial District. The JV will be 50%-owned by Nornickel…
DetailsRUSAL intends to complete the development of a feasibility study in 2018 for the construction of a scandium oxide production unit at one of its Russian operations. Such a development adds to the company completing another series of pilot-scale tests in 2017 to recover scandium oxide from red mud on its new unit constructed at…
DetailsIn January Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works increased shipping of metal wares by 4% YoY, to 37.6 thousand tons. Welding wire for the manufacture of electrodes and low-carbon wire for ferroconcrete structures showed the most increase – by 64% and by 53% respectively. Wire nails sales grew by 48%. Welding alloyed wire sales increased by…
DetailsAt a meeting held on February 13, NLMK’s Board of Directors considered the nomination for the position of the company president (CEO) (Chairman of the Management Board) submitted by its majority shareholder. Grigory Fedorishin, who currently holds the position of Senior Vice President of NLMK, was approved as the top candidate to be voted on…
DetailsRussia’s gold output increased by 6.4% YoY, to 306.9 tons in 2017, the Finance Ministry said in a statement on February 13 with data on supplies of the metal to gold refining plants. Mined gold output rose by 6.8%, to 253.9 tons, by-product gold output increased by 7.2%, to 16.4 tons, and gold scrap production…
DetailsIn 2017 DTEK decreased coal output by 11.3%, to 27.706 million tons. According to the company statement, the decrease has to do with the loss of control over mines on the non-controlled territory in March 2017. This resulted in anthracite output drop by 52.5%, to 4.791 million tons. At the same time gas-generating coal production…
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