[Ferro-Alloys.com]

According to the National Bureau of Statistics data, the national iron ore production in December 2020 was 77.201 million tons, 1.809 million tons more than last month, an increase of 2.4% month-on-month and an increase of 2.0% year-on-year; A total of 866.717 million tons, an increase of 3.7% year-on-year.

Major mining provinces (districts):

In December 2020, the production of raw iron ore from Hebei, Liaoning, Sichuan, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Shandong major ore producing provinces (regions) was 63.9861 million tons, an increase of 3.7% month-on-month and an increase of 5.3% year-on-year; Iron ore production in the seven major mining provinces accounted for 83.1% of the country’s total output, an increase of 2.3 percentage points over the same period last year. From January to December, the seven major ore-producing provinces (regions) ore volume reached 71.7907 million tons, an increase of 5.9% year-on-year.