The Sukha Balka mine (Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region), part of Alexander Yaroslavsky’s DCH group, is commissioning a new iron ore deposit block, Golovnyi, at the Yuvileina mine.
According to a report in the DCH Steel corporate newspaper on Thursday, preparations for the new production capacity at the mine have been completed.
It is specified that in early November, a specialized commission consisting of leading specialists of the enterprise and representatives of the State Labor Service of Ukraine signed an act on the commissioning of mining block 13-17. It is located in the Golovnoy deposit at a depth of 1,420 meters, sub-level 3A.
The block’s projected reserves amount to 221,300 tons of ore with an iron content of 60.75%.
“This is a large block that we have been preparing for production for almost a year, and its reserves will be enough for six months of stable operation of the enterprise,” said Mykola Puntus, chief engineer of the Yuvileina mine.
It is also reported that at the Tsentralna mine, the drainage pond at the -1260 m and -1340 m levels has been repaired. The diameter of the new pipeline between these underground levels is 325 mm. The Tsentralna mine is part of the Yuvileina mine. A drainage pond is a hydraulic engineering structure designed to collect water and is a critical part of the mine drainage system.
The Sukha Balka mine is one of the leading enterprises in the mining industry in Ukraine. It extracts iron ore using underground mining methods. The mine includes the Yuvileina and Frunze mines.
The DCH Group acquired the mine from the Evraz Group in May 2017.
DCH, Mine, ORE, SUKHA BALKA, Yuvileina
In January-September of this year, businessman Alexander Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group increased its payments to the budgets of all levels by 14.5%, or UAH 210 million, compared to the same period last year, to more than UAH 1.65 billion.
According to the PR department of DCH, the total amount of taxes paid by the group’s companies since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion has reached almost UAH 5.5 billion.
It is specified that the main increase in tax payments compared to 9 months of 2023 was provided by JSC Bank Credit Dnipro – by UAH 95 million, Kharkiv Tractor Plant (HTZ) – by UAH 32 million, and ORANTA Insurance Company – by UAH 70 million.
It is also reported that in particular, in January-September 2024, DMZ reduced the production of rolled metal products by 56.9% compared to the same period last year, while the production of metallurgical coke decreased by 0.4%.
In the first 9 months of 2024, Sukha Balka Mine commissioned 8 new blocks with total reserves of 906 thousand tons of ore.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, KHARTSYZSK PIPE has been in the war zone and the plant’s territory has been under constant shelling. Nevertheless, KHARTSYZSK PIPE continues to maintain production, electricity, gas and water supply to the plant and the city area, and continues to produce machinery for agriculture and the country’s critical infrastructure.
In June of this year, Bank Credit Dnipro, together with the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine and 18 major commercial banks, signed a memorandum of bank lending for energy infrastructure rehabilitation projects, which is dictated by the country’s strategic need to ensure energy independence.
A significant challenge for manufacturing companies is the outflow of personnel, in particular due to the mobilization of personnel. Since the beginning of the war, 465 employees of Sukhoi Balka and 268 employees of DMZ have joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The companies’ operations are also affected by periodic power outages, when they have to reduce or stop production completely.
Today, DCH Group employs over 7.6 thousand people. 912 employees of the group serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 55 of those who joined the ranks of the Armed Forces were killed.
DCH Investment Management is a financial and industrial group of companies that manages investments in ore mining and metallurgy, machine building, real estate, insurance, banking and hospitality.
DCH Group owned by businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky is a strategic partner of Turkish company Makyol, which as part of the Black Sea Consortium won a tender for the construction of a road through the Barabashovo Market in Kharkiv worth UAH 96.2 million, the press service of DCH Group told Interfax-Ukraine.
“DCH is a local strategic partner of Makyol that provides consultations on a wide range of issues, including contacts in the business environment and project management,” it said.
In February 2020, Yaroslavsky, who is the president and owner of DCH Group, said that he was working with a strategic international partners.
“It is a well-known company. We are ready to open up a new for DCH sphere together with it,” he told reporters during a road construction forum titled “Sewing Ukraine Together.”
Makyol was set up in 1965. It is one of the largest construction companies in Turkey. The company’s core business is infrastructure development (roads, subway, airports, irrigation dams, tunnels, bridges), commercial and residential real estate, as well as investment in tourism.