5,334 tons of uranium produced in Kazakhstan in QI 2015
17:37, 20 April 2015
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - 5,334 tons of uranium produced in Kazakhstan in the first quarter of 2015, the press service of JSC "Kazatomprom" National Atomic Company.
The volume of uranium mining of Kazatomprom, including shares in subsidiaries and affiliates, amounted to 1,175 tons in the first quarter of 2015. JSC "Ulbinsky metallurgical plant" in the first quarter of 2015 made 404.054 tons of beryllium products, 30.08 tons of tantalum products and 14.672 tons of niobium products. "MAEK-Kazatomprom" for consumers of Aktau and Mangystau regions in the period January-March 2015 produced 1 293.5 million kW / h of electricity, 1,184 thousand Gcal of heat energy, 284 million cubic meter of water including 2.35 million cubic meter of drinking water. Within the reporting period LLP "SARECO" JV produced 67 tons of bulk concentrate of rare-earth metals.