In mid-December Russian Platinum submitted a new development project of the Chernogorskoye platinum-copper-nickel deposits to the Federal Agency of Subsoil Use. The company intends to start mining in January 2021. In case of the positive reply from the agency, the company will have 36 months to construct a mining and processing works at the site…
DetailsIn 2017 Izhstal has increased sales of speed steel products by 47% YoY. The main consumers of this steel are local military and car manufacturers: Kalashnikov Concern, Kazan Helicopter Works, Sukhoy, Kamaz, UAZ, etc. The products are also exported to Belarus (MAZ and Belcard). Izhstal is the only Russian producer of cold-rolled belt of speed…
DetailsThe Uralelectromed subsidiary – The Manufacture of Non-Ferrous Metals Alloys – has started commissioning the main equipment of the new mini combined heat and power plant. The commissioning will be carried out in two stages, and the mini-CHPP is expected to be put in operation in late January 2018. Investments in the project totaled 187…
DetailsThe construction of new steelsmelting capacities by China in the Russian Far East is not only against the Global steel forum ideology, but also against the industry meetings decisions taken in 2016. “The idea of the Chinese metal makers to create capacities outside of China is the aim of their industry to decrease environment impact”,…
DetailsThe chairman of the Vnesheconombank Sergey Gorkov said that the strategy on the Industrial Union of Donbass corporation was developed last year. “Some time is needed to carry it out. The Fund of investment assets appeared as a part of this strategy implementation. Has this strategy not been implemented, that would have been a really…
DetailsIn October Russia exported 214.4 thousand tons of pig iron, down by 55% YoY. According to the Federal Customs Service, in January-October exports decreased by 15% YoY, to 3.59 million tons, while revenue grew by 29.4%, to $1.22 billion. USA remain the leader among importers, having purchased 65.7% of all pig iron, up by 15.4%.…
DetailsIt is proposed to change the procedure for issuing licenses to develop deposits in Kyrgyzstan, a member of the Board of the Association of Miners and Geologists of the Kyrgyz Republic, Honored Worker of Industry of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kartabek Mukambetov, said at a press conference on December 27. According to him, to restore order…
DetailsIn October, according to the Customs Statistics, Russia exported 12.3 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant steel scrap and waste valued at around $12.5 million, up by 10.4% MoM and by 18.3% YoY. Moreover, this is the second highest result for the past several years (the largest was recorded in June 2011 – 16 thousand tons). Revenue…
DetailsIn 2017 Khiagda is expected to sell 693 tons of uranium, while in 2008 it sold just 60 tons. For the next year the company has the same goals: further decrease of the prime cost of the products and the manufacturing processes. At the same time it also has new challenges: improve efficiency, increase output…
DetailsAEM-Tekhnologii has produced for Severstal a cylinder to modernize the accumulator station of the water decaling unit at the 2000 rolling mill.
In 2015 the company supplied 2 similar cylinders to Cherepovets.
The volume of the cylinder is 9.25 cubic meters. It has successfully passed the tests. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2017 ferrous scrap procuring companies will amass 3.7 million tons of scrap, and 80% (2.96 million tons) will be in the shade. As the result the budget will get only 53.3 million UAH. “One of the main issues is the deshading of the scrap market”, Ukrmetallurgprom president Alexander Kalenkov believes. According to him, in…
DetailsUkraine has retained the zero quota on gold, silver, precious metals wastes and scrap exports for 2018.
The corresponding norm is contained in the Cabinet of Ministers decree dated December 20 and published in the state newspaper Uryadovy Courier on December 23. (Ukrainian metal)
The state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa forecasts that export prices of Ukrainian suppliers of iron ore raw materials in December will fall by over 10%. “The fall will be the result of the Chinese indexes dynamics with a certain time lag. On the local market prices could grow due to the favorable situation on the rolled metal…
DetailsThe Cabinet of Ministers has prolonged for 2018 the licensing of anthracite exports at the approval of the Ministry of energy and coal industry. The correspondent decree No. 1018 dated December 20 has been published in the Uryadovy Courier newspaper. The accompanying message says that the licensing is aimed at preventing uncontrolled exports of the…
DetailsIn January-November Ferrexpo exported 9.433 million tons of iron ore pellets. In particular, Poltava GOK exported 7.07 million tons and Yeristovo GOK – 2.362 million tons. In 11 months Metalloinvest exported 4.984 million tons of pellets (Mikhailovsky GOK – 2.916 million tons and Lebedinsky GOK – 2.068 million tons). Karelsky Okatysh exported 5.038 million tons…
DetailsIn January-November DTEK Energo increased purchases of coal from state mines of the Lviv-Volyn basin by 17.4% YoY, to 668 thousand tons.
According to DTEK press-service, in November purchases grew 3-fold YoY, to 73 thousand tons, but remained on October level. (Ukrainian metal)
Administration of the Ingulskaya uranium mine, a part of the state enterprise VostGOK, has filed a suit against 94 miners, who went on a strike in November demanding the increase of salary. The administration wants the court to declare the strike illegal and believes the strike resulted in the enterprise losing some 1.46 million UAH.…
DetailsThe Russian company, RosGeoPerspectiva, will carry out geological exploration work to find copper and gold in the promising areas of Kazakhtau and Kazakhtau 1 in Navoi region of Uzbekistan. The Russian side and the State Committee of Uzbekistan for Geology and Mineral Resources have already prepared a draft agreement on geological exploration and pilot production…
DetailsPJSC Vesco and PJSC Druzhkivka Mine Administration (Druzhkivka, Donetsk region) will pay UAH 795.6 million and UAH 204.8 million of dividends to shareholders in the period from December 22, 2017 to June 21, 2018. According to a company report in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission, the shareholders made…
DetailsIn 2017 Zaporizhstal has increased transportation of its products by water by 6% YoY, to 573 thousand tons. According to the company statement, thus, 17% of the products were shipped by water. Traditionally the main consumers of Zaporizhstal metal, sent by water, are Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Romania. “Water transport is the most efficient way…
DetailsSince the start of the year Raspadskaya has mined 6 million tons of coking coal. This is the record-high result since 2009. Average monthly output is 500 thousand tons of coal. Last year the company mined 5 million tons. Raspadskaya mines a valuable coking coal, which after processing is supplied to metal and coke enterprises…
DetailsSilver Bear Resources Plc has increased the resources of its Vertikalnoye deposits in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to 1.8 million ounces of silver. The resources have been moved to the Measured and Indicated category with the silver content of 1572 g per ton. At present the company is storing ore to start silver manufacture…
DetailsIn December Krasnoyarsk Iron and Steel Works has implemented an innovative technique of aluminum processing Bonderite-2040, developed by Henkel.
So far, KraMZ is the first and only plant in Russia to use this technique.
The new technique is more environment-friendly: water consumption has decreased by 70% and the water purification has improved. (Ukrainian metal)
TMK has successfully passed the re-certification audit of the corporate quality management system for the compliance with ISO 9001:2015.
The audit has been carried out by Lloyd’s Register.
The corporative certificate for the correspondence of the TMK quality management system to ISO 9001:2015 has been granted for the next 3-year period. (Ukrainian metal)
Russian steel manufacturers have started increasing prices for local customers because of the ongoing growth of export prices. Thus, NLMK has increased its January 2018 prices for hot- and cold-rolled metal by 10%, and Severstal – by 4%. Steel started getting expensive in December. In just one week (December 15-22) average local prices have grown…
DetailsNord Gold SE, the internationally diversified low-cost gold producer, has announced that it is still at the initial stages of assessing the prospect of gold mining in Uzbekistan. “Uzbekistan has one of the world’s richest gold reserves, so any interest we have in the country would not be surprising. However, we are still at the…
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