In January-May Ukraine mined 15.883 million tons of coal, down by 3.2% YoY, or by 517.2 thousand tons. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coking coal output dropped by 26%, or by 993.1 thousand tons, to 2820.9 thousand tons, while that of power-generating coal increased by 3.8%, or by 475.9 thousand tons,…
DetailsIn 2-3 years Rosszoloto intends to construct a gold-processing factory in Amur region valued at $250 million. The company is also looking for an investor to further develop the project with the aim of attracting $500 million. In three years from the start of the investment project Rosszoloto plans to obtain the first 48.23 million…
DetailsPolymetal Int has acquired additional 25% of shares in the gold deposits Dolinnoye for $1.6 million, having increased its stake to 50%. “With this deal we strengthen our Varvarinsky hub. We expect to start processing ore there in Q3”, the company chief executive director Vitaly Nesis said. The ore reserves of the deposits according to…
DetailsThe modernization of the Svetlinsky Ferronickel Works is soon to be complete in Orenburg region. In August the company intends to start manufacturing a new product – ferronickel-containing bloom from Buruktalskoye deposits ore. The company believes that by August it will have been ready to produce the first batch. Modernization of the works started in…
DetailsVTB bank has reported that it has started cooperation with “UralSibTrade. Siberian region” and has opened a 150 million rubles line for 2 years for it. The goal of the financing is the crediting of the current operations. “We carry out work with companies interested in the development of their business. I am sure that…
DetailsThe Volgograd subsidiary of Redaelli SSM (Severstal-Metiz) has put into operation a new rope-making machine. Investments in the project totaled 300 million rubles. The machine can produce 6- and 8-therad ropes with the diameter of 28-100 mm. Such steel ropes are used in mines and on excavators. The capacity of the machine is 40 meters…
DetailsThe rail-beam shop of Evraz NTMK has started manufacturing a new product – crane rails KR-100. The first 300 tons of rails have already been shipped to the customers. KR-100 rails are made of K-76F steel. This year the shop has already started producing KR-80 rails. Evraz NTMKL also produces KR-70 and KR-120 rails according…
DetailsGlobal rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded the outlook for ratings of Polyus Gold International Limited, which holds a majority stake in Russia’s largest gold miner Polyus, to Stable from Negative, the agency said in a statement on June 14. It also affirmed a corporate family rating of the company at Ba1 and the…
DetailsIn January-May Electrostal increased continuous cast billet output by 36.42% YoY, to 167.808 thousand tons. According to the company statement, it exported 121.3 thousand tons, and supplied the rest to the local market. In May Electrostal produced 39.669 thousand tons of billets, exporting 39.648 thousand tons. In 2016 the company produced 326.187 thousand tons of…
DetailsPrices in industry in May decreased by 1.3% after an increase of 1.6% in April, 3.5% in March and 3.1% in February. According to the State Statistics Service, the main reason of the decline was the price drop of metallic ores (by 22%). In mining and quarrying the product price decrease was 9.8%, while in…
DetailsIn April ferrous scrap exports totaled 434 thousand tons, up by 26.8% MoM, but down by 36% YoY. According to the customs statistics, in January-April exports reached 1.21 million tons, down by 29.4% YoY, the lowest result for the past 7 years. The main importers were Turkey (34.3%), Belarus (30%) and South Korea (22%). (Ukrainian…
DetailsIn May, according to the Russian Railroads statistics, pig iron exports totaled 483.6 thousand tons, up by 19% MoM, but down by 9.4% YoY. In January-May exports reached 1.93 million tons, down by 16.8% YoY and by 7% from the 2015 results, but up by 23.5% from 2013 and by 3% from 2014. The main…
DetailsThe United Metal Company intends to increase 300×300 mm section pipes output at its Vyksa Iron and Steel Works by 20%. The increase is envisioned under the program of developing sales to the construction industry. The products will be used in the construction of modern buildings – skyscrapers, shopping malls, stadiums, etc. “We see great…
DetailsChelyabinsk Zinc Works, a part of UMMC, has successfully passed the second supervisory audit of the integrated management system correspondence to MS ISO 9001:2008, MS ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007. Bureau Veritas Certification has evaluated the quality management, ecological management and health and labor management systems. “The audit has been passed successfully. We have received…
DetailsThe Ministry of energy and coal industry has asked the Ministry of foreign affairs to inform 8 countries about the risk of illegal coal deliveries from the temporarily occupied regions. According to the ministry letter, such information has to be transferred to the Ukrainian embassies in Turkey, the Netherlands, Spain, Moldova, Bulgaria, Belgium, Poland and…
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