COVID-19 global disruption: Production update on overseas mining companies

Published: Apr 9, 2020 14:44

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The global widespread of COVID-19 has forced many countries to enforce stringent containment measures which result in a heavy impact on global economic activity. Over the past few months, we saw serious disruption of manpower, transportation and production in China. We are now seeing these scenarios happening around the world.

SHANGHAI, Apr 9 (SMM) – The global widespread of COVID-19 has forced many countries to enforce stringent containment measures which result in a heavy impact on global economic activity. Over the past few months, we saw serious disruption of manpower, transportation and production in China. We are now seeing these scenarios happening around the world.

As the pandemic worsens globally, miners across the world have implemented production reduction or temporarily suspended their operations. Please find below an update on the production status of overseas miners.

Coronavirus impact COVID-19 Copper Aluminium Zinc Nickel Stainless steel Lead Lead-acid battery Cobalt Lithium Tin

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