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Zinc Alloying Operation
The Kunming plant is located within the Yunnan Copper (YC) plant site in the suburbs of Kunming, the capital of the Yunnan province in the south-west of the People’s Republic of China. Kunming is located about 1,100 kilometres west of Guangdong and 2,000kilometres west-south-west of Shanghai.The Kunming plant is a joint venture in which we own60% of the shares and a Chinese state-owned enterprise, Yun Tong Zinc Co. Ltd,owns the other 40%. The plant was commissioned in 2002 and currently has an annual capacity of 58,000 tonnes and produces SHG zinc. The hydrometallurgical process associated with a thermal treatment of the leach residue makes NYZA a zero waste plant.
