Russian mining and steel group Mechel has announced that in the first half of this year its crude steel output decreased by two percent to 2.11 million mt, while its pig iron output remained stable at 2.04 million mt, both year on year. Mechel's run-of-mine coal production in the first six months of the year increased by one percent compared to the same period of 2015 to 11.53 million mt.
In the January-June period of this year, the company's steam coal sales saw an 18 percent increase year on year to 3.57 million mt. Coking coal concentrate sales in the first half of this year rose by 10 percent to 4.47 million mt, while iron ore concentrate sales increased by two percent to 1.34 million mt, both on year-on-year basis.