SOE Skhidny Mining in 2020 reduced the production of uranium oxide concentrate by 7.1% (or by 57.2 tonnes) compared to 2019, to 743.7 tonnes, according to the information from the unified public open data portal.
According to the enterprise, 93.6 tonnes of uranium concentrate were produced in January, 21.9 tonnes in February, 96 tonnes in March, 90 tonnes in April, 40 tonnes in May, 74.2 tonnes in June, and 86 tonnes in July, 77.3 tonnes in August, 58.4 tonnes in September, 7 tonnes in October, 92.5 tonnes in November, and 6.8 tonnes in December.
The deterioration of production indicators over the past two years was due to the periodic withdrawal of the company’s divisions to a forced downtime.
As reported, Skhidny Mining in 2019 reduced the production of uranium oxide concentrate by 32.1% (by 378.6 tonnes) compared to 2018, to 800.9 tonnes.
Skhidny Mining is the only uranium ore mining and processing enterprise in Ukraine and the largest in Europe.
