On July 3, Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Angang Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) announced that in the January-May period of the current year its subsidiary Ansteel Mining's outputs of iron ore, iron ore concentrate, sintering ore and pellet amounted to 22.0655 million mt, 7.2229 million mt, 1.2579 million mt and 2.782 million mt respectively, all constituting record highs for a January-May period.Meanwhile, another Ansteel subsidiary, Pangang Mining, produced 4.9276 million mt of iron ore concentrate in the January-May period of the current year, up 775,200 mt year on year.