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…
In January Ukraine produced 5.39 million tons of iron ore concentrate, up by 7% YoY. Pellets output went up by 3%, to 1.94 million tons, and sinter – by 5%, to 2.84 million tons. Supplies of iron ore raw materials to metal companies in January were up by 7% MoM, but down by 2% YoY…
The new major shareholder of Petropavlovsk – the Kazakh businessman Kenes Rakishev intends to make the company sell its 31% stake in the iron ore IRC. The company share is estimated at $65 million, while the total debt of IRC of $233.75 million is the ICBC project financing with Petropavlovsk guarantees. The money was borrowed…
In 2017 Ukraine exported 37.409 million tons of iron ore raw materials and concentrate valued at $2.588 billion, down by 4.6%, but up by 41.6% YoY respectively. According to the State Fiscal Service, iron ore share in the total export was 5.9%. The largest importer of Ukrainian iron ore raw materials last year was China…
In November average daily output of iron ore raw materials increased from 132.1 thousand tons to 150.1 thousand tons. According to the state enterprise Ukrpromvneshexpertisa, in November Ukraine produced 6234 thousand tons of iron ore raw materials, up by 303.7 thousand tons MoM. Since the start of the year output has decreased by 1.46 million…