In January-September the actual prime cost of 1 ton of coal reached 2745.3 UAH, down by 84.5 UAH from the planned cost, but up by 32.3% YoY. According to the Ministry of energy and coal industry, coalmining companies expenses reached 6.196 billion UAH, down by 1.642 billion UAH from the planned ones, but up by…
DetailsPolymetal Int has estimated the primary ore reserves of the Nezhdaninskoye deposits at 1.9 million ounces of gold and 10 million ounces of silver. In particular, ore reserves for open-pit mining are estimated at 15.5 million tons of ore with the average gold content of 4 g per ton. Additional mineral resources are estimated at…
DetailsIn 2018 the so-called Lugansk People’s Republic, a terrorist organization created and supported by Russia, intends to start developing gold deposits. According to the head of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky, this will be an important step to improve the republic’s economy. “We’ll try mining our own gold. The enterprise will not be too profitable, but…
DetailsIn January-September Kinross Gold produced 13.535 tons of precious metals (435.15 thousand troy ounces in gold equivalent), down by 21.5% YoY. In particular, in Q3 output decreased by 18%, to 4.534 tons (145.76 thousand ounces), which was explained by the scheduled drop of gold contents in ore. In January-September the company sold 13.545 tons of…
DetailsDaltransugol, a part of SUEK, is pondering the possibility of expanding the capacity of its coal-handling terminal to 40 million tons per year. The company is looking for the contractor to prepare the feasibility study. Daltransugol will pay 15 million rubles for this work. The current capacity of the terminal is 24 million tons of…
DetailsIn January-September Beloretsk Iron and Steel Works supplied some 30 thousand tons of spring wire to the manufacturers of furniture. Around 1.6 million mattresses could be made out of it. BMK supplies the 1.4-2.2 mm diameter wire to over 80 local companies. “At present BMK covers some 70% of the local market demand for spring…
DetailsAccording to Sergey Alekseyev, the TMK marketing director, steel pipes consumption (except for large diameter pipes) will grow in Russia in 2017 by 8% YoY. TMK retains its positions of the leading world manufacturer of pipes with 2798 thousand tons of pipes produced in January-September. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsIn 2017 exports of rolled metal changed. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, the share of semi-finished products fell from 44% to 40%. Flat rolled metal share increase from 28.9% to 35%, while that of long rolled metal dropped from 27% in 2016 to 24.5%. In January-October Ukraine exported 78.3% of the rolled metal produced – 11.86 million…
DetailsIn January-October metal consumption in Ukraine increased by 18% YoY, to 4.37 million tons. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, 1.08 million tons (24.7%) were imported, up by 23.4%. Imports structure changed this year. The flat rolled metal dominates the imports with the share of 58.4% against 64%, while the share of long rolled metal increased from 34.3%…
DetailsThe state enterprise Mirnogradugol has ordered the scientific-manufacturing company Mining Machines the delivery of a conveyer valued at 82.26 million UAH. By autumn 2018 within 3 months of the full prepayment the company has to supply the conveyer with the full set of spare parts and equipment. The manufacturer of the conveyer is the Kharkiv…
DetailsThe third batch of 80,000 tons of coal from the United States was delivered by the MG Explorer vessel to the state-run Yuzhny (“Southern”) Sea Commercial Port in Odessa region for Ukraine’s major power generating company PJSC Centrenergo, according to the port’s press service. “There is 80,000 tons of coal on board the bulk carrier.…
DetailsIn January-September the net profit of Rusal according to the International standards increased by 46.4% YoY, to $782 million. Corrected net profit increased 2.9-fold, to $727 million, EBITDA – by 42,4%, to $1.534 billion, revenue – by 21.3%, to $7.224 billion. The company net debt as of September 30 was $7.592 billion as opposed to…
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