Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that in the first half of this year its crude steel output increased by one percent to 2.147 million mt, while its pig iron output rose by eight percent to 2.045 million mt, both year on year. Mechel's run-of-mine coal production in the first six months of the year increased by two percent compared to the same period of 2014 to 11.448 million mt.
In the January-June period of this year, the company's steam coal sales saw a 20 percent increase year on year to 3.039 million mt. Coking coal concentrate sales in the first half of this year decreased by 24 percent to 4.068 million mt, while iron ore concentrate sales went down by 30 percent to 1.317 million mt, both on year-on-year basis.