TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - Japan's Dowa Holdings Co Ltd expects to produce 17,806 tonnes of refined copper in
the first half of the 2023/24 financial year, it said on Monday,
down 44.8% from a year earlier.
The first half runs from April to September.
The sharp fall comes as Dowa sold its stake in the
Onahama Smelting and Refining copper joint venture to Mitsubishi
Materials Corp in March.
Following are output plan details, with comparisons against
planned production in the second half and actual output in the
first half of the 2022/23 financial year, which ended on March
31.
(Copper, zinc and lead in tonnes):
H1 FY23/24 H2 FY22/23 H1 FY22/23
Copper 17,806 31,369 32,268
Zinc 80,019 103,244 80,506
Lead 4,620 6,224 4,069
(Reporting by Yuka Obayashi
Editing by Bernadette Baum)
