Anglo-Australian miner BHP has recorded production declines in all base metals for the third quarter of 2019, with nickel and zinc outputs down by 25% and 33% quarter-on quarter respectively while copper production slipped by only 3% in the same comparison.
BHP produced just 22,000 tonnes of refined nickel in the third quarter of the year, down by 25% from the previous quarter, with the decrease attributed to planned maintenance and the company's focus on the exploitation of new ore bodies.BHP's faltering nickel output has worsened. It had already gone down by 9% year-on-year to 19,200 tonnes in the first quarter of 2019 on production outages...