In April Ukrainian metal companies received 2.77 million tons of iron ore raw materials, up by 8% MoM. In January-April metal companies received 10.63 million tons of iron ore raw materials, up by 27% YoY, including 10.6 million tons of Ukrainian materials (up by 28%) and 25 thousand tons of imported (up by 32%). Exports…
In March exports totaled $3.7 billion, down by 4.1% YoY. Metal exports growth slowed down to 14.2% despite high prices. Because of that pig iron share in exports increased. Iron ore exports dropped by 9.3% YoY. (Ukrainian metal)
In March Ukraine increased iron ore raw materials exports by 4% MoM, to 2.8 million tons. According to Ukrmetallurgprom, in Q1 exports dropped by 13% YoY, to 8.6 million tons. Iron ore raw materials delivery to metal companies grew by 10% MoM, to 2.75 million tons in March, and in Q1 – by 23% YoY,…
In January-March Yakovlevsky Mine extracted 250 thousand tons of ore, up 3-fold YoY, which met the business target. The company sold 270 thousand tons of ore, up by 8% from the plan. The average iron contents in the ore were 60.6%. In Q1 the mine put into operation a new ventilation system. The machinery valued…
In January-March Ukraine exported 9.487 million tons of iron ore raw materials valued at $700.842 million, up by 6.6% and by 4.5% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, exports mostly went to Slovakia (15.81%), China (15.93%) and Poland (14.55%). At the same time Ukraine imported 9.006 thousand tons of iron ore raw materials…
In February Russian railroads transported 8.5 million tons of ore, up by 3.7% YoY. Since the beginning of the year railroads have transported 17.7 million tons of ore, up by 4% YoY. Transportation on local destinations increased by 10%, while exports dropped by 30%. China showed the main decrease – by 200 thousand tons. Iron…
The Federal Antimonopoly Service intends to have analyzed the competitiveness on the markets of gold and platinum by August. According to the service deputy director on industry control management Mariya Babikova, another analysis will be carried out on the silver and iron ore concentrate markets. She did not name the timeframe though. (Ukrainian metal)
In 2017 Kazakhstan mined 242.7 billion tenge worth of iron ore, up by 25.9% YoY. Kostanay region accounted for over 88% of the total volume (214.4 billion tenge, up by 23.4%), Karaganda region – 10.3% and Akmola region – 1.1%. ArcelorMittal Temirtau (Orken LLC) operates in the main “iron ore” regions – it is the…
