Kazakhstan: Kazakhmys to supply cheap copper wire rod

The Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development hosted the signing of a tri-partite agreement to provide enterprises of processing industry in the copper sphere with domestic raw materials. The agreement was signed by the ministry, Kazakhmys Corporation and the enterprises. According to the agreement, Kazakhmys will provide raw materials at decreased prices to Ulbinskiy Iron…

Kazakhstan: Kazakhmys output up in Q1 2022

In January-March, Kazakhmys extracted 7.915 million tons of ore, up from 7.09 million tons last year. Average copper content in ore was 0.94%, as opposed to 0.88% of target and 0.98% last year. Factories processed 7.651 million tons of ore, up from 7.481 million tons. Manufacture of copper in concentrate totaled 62.943 thousand tons (61.32…

Kazakhstan: Kazakhmys output up in 2021

In 2021, Kazakhmys Holding exceeded its output target by 5.34%, having extracted 30.739 million tons of ore. Average copper content in ore was 0.94% with the target being 0.90%. Kazakhmys processed 31.1 million tons of ore and produced 213 thousand tons of cathode copper, 5508 kg of gold and 270 thousand tons of silver, up…

Kazakhstan: Kazakhmys output up in 2020

In 2020, Kazakhmys Corporation extracted 29.356 million tons of ore, up by 0.76% from the target (30.969 million tons in 2019). Average copper content was 1.0% with the target of 0.94%. Factories processed 31.3 million tons of ore. Last year, Kazakhmys enterprises produced 258.36 thousand tons of cathode copper, up by 5.06% YoY and by…