Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Fall In Kazakhstan Non-Ferrous Metals Output

Crude lead output by Kazakhstan enterprises in 2009 decreased by 16.96% YoY to 87829 tonnes. At the same time crude zinc output decreased by 10.05 % to 328,834 tonnes and refines copper output decreased by 7.6% to 368,133 tonnes.

Copper ore extraction decreased by 4.12 % to 31,225 tonnes, copper-zinc ore extraction decreased by 4.09 % to 5034 tonnes. Zinc concentrate extraction grew by 8.05 % to 418,600 tonnes.

Kazakhstan has rich non-ferrous metals ores deposits such as lead, zinc, chromium, gold, bismuth, molybdenum, aluminium, manganese, rare-earth elements, and non-metallic deposits such as coal and phosphorites, etc.

Source: Steel Guru

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