Japan's Furukawa plans 1.2% y/y drop in H1 copper output

Furukawa

01/04/2022 09:14

TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Japanese smelter Furukawa Co Ltd
 5715.T  plans to produce 35,527 tonnes of refined copper in the
first half of the 2022/23 financial year, down 1.2% from a year
earlier, it said on Friday. 
    The first half runs from April to September.
    Following are details of Furukawa's output plan, with
comparisons against estimated production in the second half of
the 2021/22 financial year and actual production in the first
half of 2021/22. 
(copper in tonnes, gold and silver in kilograms):
            H1 FY22/23     H2 FY21/22   H1 FY21/22
 Copper         35,527         35,187       35,942
   Gold          1,664            902        1,060
 Silver          8,033          8,925       11,059
 
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; editing by Jason Neely)
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