Mining’s old guard needs strong medicine
A new report details subpar investor returns in the mining industry over the last decade, particularly big cap diversified companies which have not adapted to new realities.
Kazakhstan’s Kazatomprom, the world’s biggest uranium miner, reported a nearly sevenfold year-on-year increase in third-quarter profit on Friday as its physical sales volume doubled in the same period.
According to the company’s financial report, its quarterly profit stood at 138.9 billion tenge ($299 million), up from 20.8 billion tenge a year ago. Revenue tripled in the quarter to 285.8 billion tenge ($615 million).
The company said in an earlier operations report the surge in sales was largely due to the schedule of customer deliveries.
($1 = 464.6400 tenge)
(By Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Mark Potter)
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