Mitsui Mining sees H1 zinc output rising 0.9% y/y
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Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co Ltd, Japan’s biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce 104,600 metric tons of refined zinc in the first half of the 2024/25 financial year, up 0.9% from the same period a year earlier, it said on Monday.
The first half runs from April to September.
Zinc is used mainly as an anti-corrosive coating while making galvanized steel.
Here are output plan details, with comparisons against planned second-half production and actual first-half production for the 2023/24 financial year, which ended on March 31.
| H1 FY24/25 | H2 FY23/24 | H1 FY23/24 | |
| Zinc | 104,600 | 114,100 | 103,700 |
| Lead | 35,300 | 37,700 | 33,700 |
(By Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
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