Hindustan Zinc, the firm of the Vedanta group, said its mined metal production registered a marginal increase of 1% to 2,54,000 metric tons in the third quarter of the current fiscal year. The company's mined metal production was 2,52,000 tons last year.
The company said mined metal production in the third quarter of the current fiscal year was 254 kt "driven by higher ore production and marginally lower on QoQ (quarter-over-quarter) due to overall mined metal grades."
Refined metal production, at 2.57,000 tonnes, was down 2% during the reporting period. Hindustan Zinc's integrated zinc production fell 2% in the third quarter to 2,10,000 tonnes.
Hindustan Zinc is an integrated producer of zinc, lead and silver. The company is headquartered in Udaipur in Rajasthan, where it has its zinc-lead mines and smelting complexes.