The authorities of the Zabaikalye region want to allow individual gold extraction to increase alluvial gold output from 10 to 20 kg. The relevant amendments to the various bills have already been prepared and sent to the State Duma. Individual gold extraction has been prohibited in Russia since 1954. In 1990s the authorities of the…
DetailsKazakhaltyn Technology LLC has commissioned the gold-extracting factory at the Aksu mine. At first it is planned to obtain up to 4 tons of gold and 2 tons of silver a year. Investments totaled 30.585 billion tenge. By the end of the year Kazakhaltyn intends to have commissioned two more factories at the Zholymbet and…
DetailsIn January-October TALCO aluminum output decreased by 23% YoY, to 85.6 thousand tons valued at 330.4 million somoni. According to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, in January-October 2017 output was 110 thousand tons. This year the company has processed over 6.8 thousand tons of aluminum, up by 1.6 thousand tons YoY. In 10…
DetailsEvraz ZSMK has obtained the TSI certificate for the 54E4 and 49E5 European standard sections. The certificate allows the company to supply such rails to Europe to be used on high-speed and ordinary railroads. The company has also confirmed the TSI certificate correspondence for the 60E1 and 60E2 European sections. “The manufacture of 54E4 and…
DetailsCherepovets Iron and Steel Works has finished the repairs of the blast furnace No. 2. The cost of the repair exceeded 40 million rubles. The repair lasted for 18 days. All the parts of the new machinery were of local-make. One of the largest parts – the base of the furnace weighing 15 tons –…
DetailsThe copper-smelting shop of Uralelectromed has started assembling the new crane to load charge into the anode furnaces. The cost of the machinery together with assembly will reach some 20 million rubles. This is the second crane manufactured by the Naberezhniye Chelny Crane Works, made to order. The first one has been working for a…
DetailsKyshtym Electrolytic Copper Plant will assemble a new complex on MAERZ furnace gas purifying valued at 200 million rubles. Purification will reach 99%, and the total square of filtration will be 4.5 thousand square meters. The new gas-purifying equipment will be commissioned in H2 2018. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn January-November Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine produced 1.095 million tons of rolled metal, down by 37.7% YoY. According to a company representative, steel output dropped by 35.9%, to 1.128 million tons, pig iron – by 37.8%, to 1.087 million tons. In November DMK produced 225 thousand tons of rolled metal, 237 thousand tons of…
DetailsIn 2017 Corum Druzhkovka Machine-building Works increased output by 122% YoY. According to the company statement, the expected volume of products manufactured this year will be 757 million UAH. Loading of the company capacities this year has increased by almost a quarter, to 123%. In 11 months the works received 353 orders for the manufacture…
DetailsPJSC ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih continues to resettle the residents from the area of possible displacement of the earth surface in the Saksaganskiy district of Kriviy Rih and is ready to purchase every household located in the streets Lavrenyova and Chistopolskaya (“Zhukovka settlement”), at the price of 425 thousand hryvnia providing the conclusion of the sales…
DetailsIzhorsky Pipe Works, a part of Severstal, has supplied over 42 thousand tons of 1420 mm diameter pipes of K60 steel for the construction of the Sila Sibiri (Power of Siberia) gas pipelines. Such pipes can withstand increased deformations and remain stable under active seismic influence. The first batch of pipes was shipped to the…
DetailsEnergoprom, a part of Renova and the only producer of graphitized electrodes in Russia, will help metal makers. In 2018 it will increase UHP and SHP electrodes output by one third, to 39.4 thousand tons and will sell around half of the products to metal makers with a 20-30% discount under long-term contracts. In autumn…
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