TABLE — Kazakhstan's January — September copper output dropped 1.2% year — on — year

ALMATY, Oct 16 (Reuters) — Kazakhstan's refined copper output for January-September fell by 1.2% year-on-year, data from the statistics bureau showed on Friday. The bureau's latest monthly bulletin provided the following data on Kazakhstan's non-ferrous, steel and precious metals output (in metric tons/kilograms): September August Jan-Septembe r REFINED COPPER 39,201 34,247 351,485 (tonnes) mth/mth pct change 14.5 -25.7 --- yr/yr pct change 2.8 -4.6 -1.2 REFINED ZINC (T) 18,893 17,574 169,281 mth/mth pct change 7.5 -11.9 --- yr/yr pct change -6.4 -14.2 -12.7 ALUMINA AND UNWROUGHT 140,957 149,026 1,214,381 Aluminium (T) mth/mth pct change -5.4 -2.1 --- yr/yr pct change -4.8 2.1 -10.0 FERRO-ALLOYS (T) 168,113 170,704 1,524,734 mth/mth pct change -1.5 58.9 --- yr/yr pct change 2.3 1.3 -0.6 CRUDE STEEL (T) 319,909 391,073 3,269,977 mth/mth pct change -18.2 -0.8 --- yr/yr pct change 10.9 6.6 5.0 REFINED GOLD (kg) 5,488 3,429 47,676 mth/mth pct change 60.0 -33.6 --- yr/yr pct change 3.2 -19.5 -11.0 REFINED SILVER (kg) 52,243 45,223 457,333 mth/mth pct change 15.5 -15.1 --- yr/yr pct change 11.2 -6.9 -0.7 Copper miner KAZ Minerals and Glencore's Kazzinc account for a large part of Kazakhs