In 2017 Russia obtained 306.9 tons of gold, up by 6.3% YoY. According to the Ministry of Finances press-service, mined gold output totaled 253.9 tons (237.8 tons in 2016), by-product gold – 16.4 tons (15.3 tons) and secondary gold – 36.6 tons (35.4 tons). Silver output in 2017 decreased by 4% YoY, to 1.044 million…
DetailsIn January the railroad deliveries from NLMK both to Russian customers and for exports totaled 1.13 million tons, up by 8.9% MoM and by 5% YoY. Moreover, this is the third highest result in 10 years (October 2017 – 1.16 million tons, March 2017 – 1.15 million tons). In January 409 thousand tons were supplied…
DetailsSevero-Kavkazskoye PGO, a part of Russia’s state geological exploration company Rosgeo, has discovered 73.79 tons of inferred gold reserves at the Dakhovskaya area of the Belorechensky structure in the southern republic of Adygeya. According to the company statement on February 14, the project is implemented under a 173.2 million ruble state contract concluded by the…
DetailsIn 2017 ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih considerably decreased energy consumption. In particular, total power intensity was 25.231 gigajoule per 1 ton of liquid steel. This year the total energy consumption is planned on the level of 25.195 gigajoule per ton. Last year the company achieved the historical lows of electricity consumption – 4.194 billion kW-h and…
DetailsIgor Lushankin has become the new director of Severstal Distribution LLC. He has been working for 17 years as the commercial director of Midland Resources, being responsible for Zaporizhstal exports. “For the past five years he has been working in the sphere of rolled metal and raw materials supplies both to Ukrainian companies, and to…
DetailsThe public joints stock company Koks has attracted a VTB loan of 10 billion rubles. According to the company statement, the term of the loan is 7 years. The interest rate will be set depending on the term. The maximum volume of the interest rate should not exceed 20%. Koks is controlled by the Industrial-Metallurgical…
DetailsA new mini-power plant has been put into operation at the Uralelectromed enterprise – Proizvodstvo Splavov Tsvetnykh Metallov. Its capacity is 2.4 MW of electricity or 9.2 Gcal-h of hearing energy. The size of the premises is 450 square meters. Commissioning took several months. At first, by the start of the heating season, a boiler…
DetailsMajor metal companies believe that the favorable trends of 2017 will persist this year as well. Last year Russia produced 71.3 million tons of steel, up by 2.4% YoY. Rolled metal output grew slightly – by 0.7%, to 60.9 million tons. Pig iron manufacture grew even less – by 0.55%, to 52.2 million tons. It…
DetailsFor the past 10 years Severstal has decreased the volume of industrial wastes at Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works by 58%. The decrease has to do with the sale of secondary products. This helps decrease the volume of industrial wastes, accumulated at the landfill. At present the company sells over 20 types of wastes. Last…
DetailsNovosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant, a unit of the Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL, exported more than 300 kilograms of metal uranium to France in 2017, Alexander Yevseyev, the plant’s director for production, said on February 13. “This is the first delivery within a large contract. The client was satisfied, and we will continue cooperation,” he…
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