According to the data released by the Republic of
Kazakhstan's Agency of Statistics, during the January-October 2006 period the country registered a 17.9 percent increase in
iron ore production, a 6.5 percent decrease in crude steel
production, a one percent decrease in
production of flat rolled and a 5.4 percent rise in ferroalloys
production year on year. The respective figures in metric tons were 18.8 million, 3.5 million, 2.5 million and 13.4 million.
In October 2006,
Kazakhstan saw a 14.3 increase in
production of
iron ore to 1.8 million metric tons, a 20.2 percent decrease in crude steel output to 331,977 metric tons, a 39.3 percent decrease in flat rolled
production to 202,865 metric tons and a 3.2 percent rise in ferroalloys
production to 136,013 metric tons, as compared to the corresponding period of 2005.