India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in the first seven months of the financial year 2016-17 (started April 1) it produced 16.80 million mt of iron ore, registering an increase of 11.3 percent year on year. The company's iron ore sales in the given period amounted to 18.97 million mt, rising by 20.6 percent year on year.