COPPER PRODUCTION IN INDIA
Installed capacity
of primary copper in the country was 3.47 lakh tonnes in 2001-02.
The total production was 3.36 lakh tonnes with a capacity utilization
of 96.70 per cent. During 2000-01 the country produced 2.628 lakh
tonnes of copper utilising 106 per cent of its installed capacity
of 2.47 lakh tonnes. The demand for copper in the country is being
fully met by indigenous production.
Copper is being
exported to 159 countries in the last three years. The major countries
are USA, UK, Germany, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, China,
Taiwan, Malaysia and UAE. During 2001-02 the country earned 208.7
million US dollars as against 164 million US dollars in 2000-01
from copper export.
This information
was given by the Minister for Mines, Shri Ramesh Bais in a written
reply in the Lok Sabha today.
