Metallurgy news

• Germany is in no hurry to part with coal Burning coal to generate electricity looks set to remain the backbone of Germany's energy supply for decades, in stark contrast to Chancellor Angela Merkel's ambitions to be a role model in the fight against climate change. Merkel is avoiding a sensitive coal phase-out in Europe's largest... 11.08.2017  13:06

• Vale struggles to find partners for nickel production in Indonesia Nickel producer Vale Indonesia says Indonesia's recent move to allow ore exports is helping to lower global metal prices and complicating efforts to forge partnerships for new investment in smelters. Miners around the world face persistent market weakness, thanks in part to efforts by Indonesia... 10.08.2017  11:38

• Uozhsich Balssun is no longer the head of the railways of Ukraine The head of Ukrzaliznytsia, rocker Pole Wojciech Balchun, has resigned. In this position, he worked for a year and a half and tried to reform the Ukrainian railway. The first to announce the resignation of Wojciech Balchun was not the head of Ukrzaliznytsia himself, but the Prime Minister of... 10.08.2017  11:29

• BHP Billiton Considers Autonomous Vessels Australian mining company BHP, which uses up to 1,500 ships a year to transport around 250 million tonnes of iron ore, copper and coal, wants to introduce new technologies within ten years. BHP Billiton is analyzing the effectiveness of the implementation of a fully automated vessel for... 10.08.2017  10:53

• Ukraine imports coal from the USA for the first time For the first time in its history, Ukraine has signed a contract with the United States to import coal from this country. This will alleviate energy shortages from cutting off coal supplies controlled by separatists in eastern Ukraine. The contract signed in mid-July between the American coal... 09.08.2017  10:21

• Nickel production in Russia continues to decline BMI Research announced that it has cut its forecast for global nickel production by 5% from 1%, which means that nickel production will be reduced to 243,000 tons from 256,000 tons in 2016. BMI cuts its forecast for production of Russian nickel ore in 2017. In addition, nickel ore production in... 09.08.2017  10:12

• Coal producers report big profits Coal producers in China posted impressive earnings in the first half of this year. Of the 37 Chinese-registered coal mining companies, more than half estimated their profit in the first half of 2017 to be twice as high as in the first half a year ago. Companies attributed this to huge increases... 09.08.2017  09:53

• Shareholders of Poltava GOK allowed to mortgage the property of the complex to attract a loan to the EU At an extraordinary general meeting of PJSC Poltava Mining and Processing Plant (PGOK, Ferrexpo Poltava Mining, Horishnie Plavni, Poltava Region), the shareholders of the largest producer of iron ore pellets in Ukraine agreed to carry out significant transactions as collateral under a loan... 08.08.2017  13:03

• Georgian authorities want to get information from Poles about Saakashvili's whereabouts Georgian authorities have formally made a request to Poland to find out if the former Georgian president is visiting Poland, according to Ukas Apinsky, a spokesman for the district attorney's office in Warsaw. It is known that on Sunday evening Saakashvili met with Ukrainians in Warsaw. The... 08.08.2017  11:42

• Under Trump, US coal industry gets a new lease on life The Trump administration is embarking on one of the oldest and most controversial debates, encouraging coal mining on land owned by the federal government. This is part of the dispute over the wider use of commercial opportunities on public lands. The intervention sparked outrage among... 08.08.2017  10:30