Russia's
iron ore production through the first two months of 2005 rose 1.3% year-on-year to 15.7 million tons.
Russia upped its sinter
production by 2.5% to 976'200 tons.
Iron ore concentrate
production rose 2.6% to 15.1 million tons, while pellet output jumped 7.6% to 6.1 million tons.
Total
iron ore production of
CIS producers'
Russia,
Ukraine and
Kazakhstan amounted to 30.1 million tons in January-February 2005 period, up 5% year-on-year.
Production rose 6.1% to 11.1 million tons in
Ukraine and 21.6% to 3.3 million tons in
Kazakhstan.