As of July 1, the gold-extracting company Zolotinka LLC has extracted 42 kg of gold in Amur region, down by 29% YoY. According to the regional ministry of natural resources, as of July 1, 2017 the gold output amounted to 59.1 kg. The company is extracting alluvial gold at two sites: in the Ostrovnaya River…
DetailsThe Vostsibugol Company LLC intends to invest 1 billion rubles in the development of the Southeastern part of the South block of the Quarry field No. 1 of the Mugunskoye deposits in Irkutsk region. The mining is expected to begin in 2020. In 2021 the planned annual capacity of 2.5 million tons will be reached.…
DetailsThe Primorye region stops exporting ferrous scrap and wastes through the seaports of Nakhodka and Vostochniy. The new rules come into effect on July 22. The scrap export limitation will be valid for 5 months. So far this year Nakhodka customs has approved 95.5 thousand tons of scrap for exports. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn September the Aluminum Works in the city of Volgograd will resume primary aluminum manufacture, suspended 5 years ago. Autumn will also see the commissioning of the baked anode factory. The cost of each project is some 8 billion rubles. The electrolysis manufacture at the works was suspended in August 2013 by Rusal because of…
DetailsThe expert council of the Industry Development Fund has approved of 5 loans for projects in Samara, Kirov, Bryansk and Krasnodar regions. The total cost of the projects exceeds 1.1 billion rubles, with IDF providing over 675 million rubles. In particular, Unecha Works of Refractory Metals (Bryansk region) will be provided with the loan of…
DetailsSeverstal Steel Decisions has resumed supplies of metal structures for the closed theme zone of the Dream Isle amusement park in Moscow. As of June, the company has produced and shipped 2.268 thousand tons of metal structures, made of Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works steel. Assembly of the metal structures started in March. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsKirov Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Works has finished the main stage of its capacity modernization. The company is commissioning three machines with the combined cost of 1.4 billion rubles: a cold-rolling mill, modernized transfer tables of the hot-rolling mill and the Salico slitting and shearing line. The Kvarto-450 cold-rolling mill modernization was the most expensive. The…
DetailsChelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has been visited by the participants of the First Conference on Industrial and Scientific Cooperation between the Chelyabinsk region and the Chinese province of Heilongjiang. The goal of the visit was to get acquainted with the operation of the rail-beam mill. In May the works produced a trial batch of…
DetailsMMK has assembled a new air-separation machine valued at 4.2 billion rubles in the oxygen shop No. 5. The machine can produce 35 thousand cubic meters of industrial oxygen and 30 thousand cubic meters of pure nitrogen, as well as some 1 thousand cubic meters of argon. The new machine will be able to save…
DetailsEvraz Kachkanarsky Mining and Processing Works has shipped the 150-millionth ton of sinter to the blast furnace shop of Evraz NTMK. This sinter has improved metallurgical qualities. Iron contents reach 57%, and vanadium pentoxide – 0.55%. The sinter shop produces over 3.5 million tons of sinter per year. It operates 2 sintering machines. Evraz NTMK…
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