In January-March the Industrial Metallurgical Holding enterprises mined 542 thousand tons of coking coal, down by 28% QoQ. The decrease was the result of the planned disassembly and assembly of machinery at Butovskaya mine and the short calendar period of the first quarter.
Berezovskaya factory decreased coal concentrate processing by 6% QoQ, to 644 thousand tons because of the drop in coalmining.
KMAruda mined 1.3 million tons of iron ore, down by 33 thousand tons QoQ. Iron ore concentrate production dropped by 5%, to 561 thousand tons.
Tulachermet increased pig iron output by 9%, to 573 thousand tons. (Ukrainian metal)