China copper smelter output dips in November on maintenance - Antaike

China Daye Non-Ferrous Metals Mining

09/12/2020 12:35

Dec 9 (Reuters) - 
    * China's copper smelters produced 1% less copper cathode in
November than in the previous month due to maintenance in
Shandong, Anhui and other regions, research house Antaike said
on Wednesday.
    * Last month's output from the 22 smelters surveyed for
Antaike's
monthly production report was 733,600 tonnes, down from a
revised figure of 740,900 tonnes for October and also down 0.5%
year-on-year.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N2HW0V2
    * In the first 11 months of 2020, production was 7.74
million
tonnes, which was 0.6% lower than a year earlier. 
    * Antaike, the research arm of the China Nonferrous Metals
Industry Association, sees December output rising to around
750,000 tonnes, with Daye Non-ferrous  0661.HK  the only major
smelter carrying out maintenance this month.


 (Reporting by Tom Daly, editing by Louise Heavens)
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