The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed a decree to increase manufacture of non-ferrous and precious metals at Almalyk Mining and Processing Works. The project to develop the Yoshlik I deposit will be carried out in 2 stages. The first stage, in 2020-2024, sees the development of the deposit and the construction of a…
In January-November Almalyk Mining and Processing Works produced 154 tons of silver and 16 tons of gold, up by 158.9% and by 107.6% YoY respectively. The company is one of the 30 major miners and processors of copper and molybdenum, polymetals and gold-containing ores. It employs over 36 thousand people. Almalyk exports more than 20…
Almalyk Mining and Processing Works intends to modernize its copper-processing factory. In particular, the company will replace two outdated GIST-72 screens before medium crushing with 3 new SHR-24-10.5×2.3 screens, as well as 9 GIST-71 screens before fine screening with the same number of upgraded SMR-25-12.4×2.9 screens. Moreover, two new highly efficient fine crushers will be…
Under the project to develop the Yoshlik I deposit Almalyk Mining and Processing Works has assembled an EKG-15 M excavator and is assembling two more. So far the company has bought 15 excavators, including 13 EKG-15M and 2 EKG-10. The three excavators were received in August. The first was assembled in just 35 days as…
In January-August Almalyk Mining and Processing Works manufactured 11.2 trillion sums worth of products, up by 8.1% from the target. Exports reached $578.4 million. With the help of a development program the company plans to increase its ore output more than 3-fold, to 100 million tons. Non-ferrous and precious metals output will grow 2-fold, and…
Almalyk Iron and Steel Works has started carrying out the second stage of the railroad infrastructure construction to the Kalmakyr mine. Kalmakyr Mine is the largest mining enterprise in the CIS, the base of Uzbek non-ferrous metallurgy. In 2016 the mine design capacity was increased to 30 million tons of ore per year. Under the…
Due to the increase of capacity, Almalyk Mining and Processing Works produced 12782 tons of raw copper in March, up from the target of 11760 tons. Average daily output was 460 tons, more than the target of 379 tons. Anode copper output target was set at 13493 tons, with 450 tons per day, but the…
Almalyk Mining and Processing Works, using new technique, has obtained palladium. Previously the works was obtaining palladium powder. The technique, consisting of 52 steps and lasting for 70 hours, allowed obtaining less than 1 kg of palladium per month. Last year the enterprise started studying obtaining palladium from the electrolyte solution as well as refined…