JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Swiss-headquartered Ferrexpo’s Ukraine assets recorded a 3.3% quarter-on-quarter decrease in iron-ore pellet production to 2.53-million tonnes in the second quarter.
This brought pellet production for the first half of the year to 5.16-million tonnes, 9.9% lower than the 5.72-million tonnes produced in the first half of 2016.
The company attributed the lower production to a planned 55-day pellet line refurbishment.
Ferrexpo operates two openpit mines and a processing facility in the Poltava region of the Ukraine.