Japan's Mitsui Mining expects H1 zinc output up 5.6% y/y

Mitsui Kinzoku

01/04/2022 08:35

TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co Ltd
 5706.T , Japan's biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce 113,300
tonnes of refined zinc in the first half of the 2022/23
financial year, up 5.6% from a year earlier, it said on Friday.
    The first half runs from April to September.
    Zinc is used mainly as an anti-corrosive coating while
making galvanised steel.
    Following are details of the company's output plan, with
comparisons against planned production in the second half of the
2021/22 financial year and actual production in the first half
of 2021/22.
     (Zinc and lead in tonnes, gold and silver in kilograms):
          H1 FY22/23     H2 FY21/22          H1 FY21/22
   Zinc      113,300        110,800             107,300
   Lead       35,400         34,400              34,700
   Gold        2,700          3,000               3,100
 Silver       94,000         71,100              75,200
 
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi
Editing by Mark Potter)
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