The 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)
DetailsAdministration 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)
DetailsTMK 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)
DetailsRussian 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…
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