The third vessel with anthracite from South Africa for DTEK has arrived. On August 14 the unloading began. The coal will be sent to Pridneprovskaya and Krivorozhskaya thermal power plants. The first vessel with African coal arrived on May 25, and the second on July 23. DTEK says it buys coal at around $100 per…
DetailsMetinvest mining and processing works have asked the acting chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevgeny Kravtsov to help provide enough railroad wagons. While the enterprises need 4141 wagons, they received only 695 (or 16.7%). In particular InGOK needed 378 wagons from Uzhgorod to Slovakia, but received none, from Chop to the Czech Republic – 162 and 10…
DetailsAlmalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (AMMC, Almalyk city, Tashkent region), a monopoly copper producer in Uzbekistan, has started implementation of the second phase of the “Development of the Dalneye deposit” project, the press service of the AMMC reported. The work was started on the instruction of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who arrived in Almalyk to…
DetailsSubstantial construction works have been completed on the inclined conveyor barrel of the Vorgashorskaya mine of Vorkutaugol, one of the largest coal mining companies in Russia, a subsidiary of Severstal. The company has started the preparation of the coalmine, from which coking coal will be mined. The construction of ICB unit at the Vorgashorskaya mine…
DetailsA concept for reforming the country’s coal industry until 2020 approved by the government envisages the creation of state-owned enterprise National Coal Company, which will receive 33 state-owned coalmines, Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion said at a first meeting of the interagency working group for settling crisis in coal industry. “It is easy to solve…
DetailsRail transportation of coal exported from Russia in January-June increased by 16.4% YoY, to 94.8 million tons. The railway transport statistics show that the largest coal exports volume was hauled to the Far East regional ports and border crossings points. According to Rosstat, in the first half of 2017 coal production in Russia increased by…
DetailsIn January-June Polyus increased gold output by 12%, to 938 thousand ounces (29.17 tons), mostly thanks to the growth of manufacture at Olimpiada and Verninskoye deposits. Gold sales increased by 17%, to 983 thousand ounces, including 71 thousand ounces in concentrate from Olimpiada. Sales revenue reached $1.217 billion, up by 14%, at the average price…
DetailsIn January-July the St. Petersburg subsidiary of the First Cargo Company transported 171.3 thousand tons of scrap, up 1.5-fold YoY. The company throughput in the segment increased by 60%, to 97.8 million ton-km. “The increase of scrap transportation via Oktyabrskaya railroad has to do with the high demand for scrap on behalf of Severstal and…
DetailsArcelorMittal Temirtau has ordered the services of mining coal and loading it into railroad cars, but has not paid the contractor over 36 million tenge. The company filed a complaint and the court ordered AMT to fulfill its contract obligations. (Ukrainian metal)
DetailsOskol Electrometallurgical Works is going on with its large-scale investment project – the construction of the reducing-sizing mill in its bar-rolling shop No. 2. Investments total 800 million rubles, and the output of rolled metal will as the result of the modernization increase by 67 thousand tons per year. The main and auxiliary machinery has…
DetailsIn January-July Azovstal Iron and Steel Works produced 2.15 million tons of rolled metal, up by 11.5% YoY. According to the company statement, steel output increased by 14%, to 2.436 million tons, pig iron – by 17%, to 2.153 million tons. In July Azovstal produced 251 thousand tons of rolled metal, 270 thousand tons of…
DetailsDneprovsky Iron and Steel Combine is operating 2 blast furnaces but is preparing the third one for operation. According to the company statement, the BF No. 1M was blown on July 22, and it was the only BF to produce pig iron in July. BF No. 9 was blown on July 23, and started producing…
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