New Delhi, May 5 -- :India's largest manganese ore producer, MOIL, in a strong start to the financial year 2025-26, has delivered its highest-ever April performance with the production of 1.62 lakh tonnes of ore, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Steel on Sunday.

The production of the ore in April represents a 1.5 per cent growth over the corresponding figure for the same month of the previous year. The government-owned company, which supplies manganese ore as an input for making steel, has also achieved its best ever exploratory core drilling of 11,453 metres, which is an impressive growth of 58 per cent over the corresponding figure for the same month last year.

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