Integrated steelmaker ArcelorMittal is taking a planned outage at one of the blast furnaces at its Burns Harbor mill.

Overall Russian coal output fell in the first quarter of this year, but some coking coal mining firms raised output.

Gladstone, DBCT, Hay Point and Abbot Point operated at a combined utilisation rate of just 75pc in 2019 and the distribution was uneven.

The company did not provide a new figure. The guidance was previously revised downwards from an initial 10mn t.

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Keetac can produce about 6 million net st of iron ore pellets each year.

On a quarterly basis, steel demand would be a washout in the first quarter of this fiscal, given the pan-India lockdown that would hurt construction.