KAZAKHSTAN'S YUZHPOLIMETALL REDUCES OUTPUT 26 percent IN 2005

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SHYMKENT. (Interfax) - Kazakhstan's Yuzhpolimetall Industrial Corporation decreased production by 25.7 percent to 5.347 billion tenge in 2005, company president Tursunbek Asanbayev told Interfax on February 26. The company produced 28,420 tonnes of refined lead, 30.4 percent less than in 2004; 34.4 kg of gold in alloy, 19.6 percent less; 14.607 tonnes of silver in alloy, 21 percent less; 78.968 tonnes of bismuth, 7.9 percent less; 34,545 tonnes of bante concentrate, 3 percent less; and 677.86 tonnes of red lead, 8.7 percent less. The company also produced 35 railroad switches, which it began making in 2005.