WORLD ZINC STOCKS FALL 7,700 TONNES IN FEBRUARY
World closing stocks of primary zinc
at smelters, excluding Eastern Bloc countries, fell 7,700
tonnes in February to 459,100 tonnes from 466,800 (revised from
449,600) in January, compared with 403,700 in February 1986,
provisional European Zinc Institute figures show.
    February closing stocks of primary zinc at European
smelters, excluding Yugoslavia, fell 4,500 tonnes to 160,000
from 164,500 (revised from 164,300) in January, compared with
126,700 in February 1986.
    Total world zinc production, excluding Eastern Bloc
countries, fell to 390,800 tonnes in February from 419,900
(revised from 419,600) in January. February 1986 production was
378,600 tonnes.
    European zinc production, including estimates for
Yugoslavia, fell to 152,900 tonnes in February from 164,200 in
January, compared with 156,400 in February 1986.
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