Production of commodity iron ore in January-June 2013 amounted to 40,44 million tonnes, 1.18 million tonnes, or 3% more than in the same period last year. Such information contains in the monthly study of the iron ore market held companies "ukrpromvneshekspertiza" (SEA).
In terms of types of iron ore, the main increase in absolute terms fell on production of saleable concentrate and pellets, which are made up 20.22 million tonnes and of 11.73 million tonnes respectively (+609 thousand t and +354 thousand tons in the first half of 2012). On the sintered ore had 7.25 million tonnes (+62 kt), and the sinter – 1.24 million tons (+159 thousand tons).
In the context of mining enterprises, the largest increase of production of commodity iron ore has demonstrated Poltava GOK, which increased the production of pellets at 521 thousand tonnes, or 11%.
"This significant production growth, of course, was caused by the demand for the company's products in foreign markets, but the ability to reload the equipment for enrichment and pelletizing were due to the increase in the supply of crude ore with by Ferrexpo yeristovo mining and concentrate from Stoilensky (Russia), – says Dmitry Zheltyakov, an analyst at PEO, However, to our knowledge, the capacity of the enterprise in the first half was loaded on average 96.2% of".
Also worth noting is the increase of production of commodity iron ore raw materials at the enterprises of Metinvest group, namely Central GOK (+228 thousand tons of concentrate and 7 kt of pellets), Northern GOK (+293 thousand tons of concentrate, but -175 thousand tons of pellets) and at Ingulets GOK (+75 thousand tonnes of concentrate).
Significantly increased the production of sinter ore in the Krivoy Rog IRC (+138 kt) and concentrate on the former Novokrivorozhsky MPP (+104 kt), which is a structural unit of Arcelor Mittal Kryvyi Rih.