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.
  

