BRISBANE (Scrap Register): Australian exploration and mining company, Metro Mining has released results for the month of July and reported bauxite production of 443 thousand wet metric tonnes (WMT) and shipments of 463 thousand wet metric tonnes (WMT).

This marks a month-on-month growth of 3.8% in production and 24% in shipments, bringing the total amount of output and shipments to 1.32 million tonnes (wet) and 1.29 million tonnes (wet) respectively during January-July.

Bauxite mined per day in July amounted to 14,290 tonnes (WMT), compared to 10,601 tonnes (WMT) last month and shipment per day came in at 14,935 tonnes (WMT), in contrast to 10,034 tonnes (WMT) in June 2019, the company said.