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2020 Managerial Review

Key news stories from the Global Copper Supply Chain

News - Featuring African and Russian projects and

further corporate reporting

A Clean Green Revolution - Case Study, pledges,

objectives and findings

Event Reviews - Sustainability and Super Cycles Event

Previews - A diamond life, events schedule

Copper for the EV age - Supply chain overview and

market development stories

Contracts and People - Udokan, Jiangxi Copper,

Nornickel, Almalyk, Mantoverde and more

Event Previews

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Herein fourth Edition of CWDigital online magazine, a sister publication to Copper Worldwide magazine, which has just passed its tenth Anniversary Year. My fascination with copper and its alloys production and processing technologies began during my time in the early 2000s as an international Technical Sales Engineer, supplying induction billet heating systems to the ferrous and non-ferrous sector. I then worked for a time with a continuous rotary extrusion manufacturer, and (as they say) the rest is history! As key technology trends and market issues develop globally, this regular update will both increase awareness of and build upon the established Editorial range of Co p per Worldwide print magazine. The ongoing global pandemic and vaccination rollout continues to challenge supply chains in new ways. Enjoy reading this latest publication.

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“Copper Worldwide is the only periodical magazine that focuses solely on all aspects of the copper business. It is much more than the collection of press releases, as it looks also behind the information of companies. As Chris Holding – the Editor – himself is an expert of copper, he is active to get information also by own research – like visiting important copper events and doing interviews. The magazine touches the copper business as a whole: Products, Technologies, Events, Companies, People News. It has a readable layout and the articles are not too long but always informative, so it is a must for every leading manager in the Copper Industry to stay up-to-date in an ‘info-taining’ way.” Bernd E. Langner, Author, Understanding Copper - Technologies, Business, Markets

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Los Bronces boost for Anglo American APR 22 - Anglo American copper production increased by 9% to 160,300 tonnes, due to strong operational performance at both Los Bronces and Collahuasi. Production from Los Bronces increased by 15% y-o-y to 78,800 t, with higher water availability resulting in a 63% increase in plant throughput, partially offset by planned lower grade (0.72% vs 0.98%). At Collahuasi, attributable production increased by 8% y-o-y to 71,600 t, due to a sustained increase in plant performance resulting in higher throughput and recoveries as well as planned higher ore grade (1.26% vs 1.20%).

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Full year production guidance is unchanged at 640,000-680,000 t. www.angloamerican.com

FCX restarts Chino operations APR 22 - According to Freeport-McMoRan FirstQuarter 2021 Results, capital expenditures totalled US$ 0.4 billion (including approximately US$ 0.3 bn for major projects) in Q1 2021. Capital expenditures for 2021, excluding Indonesia smelter expenditures, are expected to approximate US$ 2.3 bn, including US$ 1.4 bn for major projects primarily associated with underground development activities in the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia. First-quarter 2021 copper sales were 825 M lb (Q1 2020: 729 M lb) of copper, primarily reflecting continued progress of the ramp-up of underground mining at PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI), partly offset by timing of shipments.

During first-quarter 2021, mining activities at the Chino mine (USA) were restarted at a rate of approximately 100 M lb copper per year (or 50 percent of capacity). During first-quarter 2021, Cerro Verde’s concentrator facilities in Peru exceeded planned milling rates and averaged 390,100 t ore per day. The El Abra (Chile) large sulphide resource could potentially support a major mill project similar to facilities constructed at Cerro Verde in 2015. FCX continues to evaluate a largescale expansion at El Abra to process additional sulphide material and to achieve higher copper recoveries. www.fcx.com

Glencore records moderate rise in output APR 29 - Glencore’s First Quarter 2021 Production Report says own-sourced copper production of 301,200 tonnes was 3% higher than in Q1 2020, mainly relating to productivity improvements and mine plan sequencing at South American operations including Collahuasi, Antamina and Antapaccay. Own-sourced zinc production of 282,600 t was 13,000 t (4%) lower than Q1 2020, mainly relating to lower grades at Kazzinc’s Maleevsky mine and mine sequencing at Kidd. Attributable Collahuasi copper production of 71,700 t was 8% higher

than Q1 2020, reflecting higher milling throughput. Similarly for Antamina, its 35,800 t was 8% higher than Q1 2020, due to mine sequencing. Antapaccay in turn recorded a 5% increase to 59,300 t year-on-year. Mine sequencing at Cobar in Australia led to 39,800 t own sourced copper production (-9%), reflecting temporary lower grades. Custom metallurgical assets copper cathode production was 127,200 t (+3%) y-o-y, whilst copper anode production of 126,700 t was in line with Q1 2020.

APR 21 - BHP reports copper production for the nine months ended 31 March 2021 decreased by six per cent to 1,233 kt. Guidance for the 2021 financial year increased to between 1,535 and 1,660 kt from between 1,510 and 1,645 kt. Chilean assets continued to operate with a substantial reduction in their operational workforces as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, with more challenges in the June 2021 quarter. Escondida copper production decreased by eight per cent to 821 kt with record concentrator throughput of 378 ktpd achieved offset by the impact of lower concentrator feed grade and lower cathode volumes. Guidance for FY 2021 is between 1,010 and 1,060 kt. On 1 April 2021, Escondida successfully completed negotiations for a new two-year collective agreement with Intermel. Escondida’s collective agreement with Union No1 of Operators and Maintainers expires on 1 August 2021 and negotiations are expected to commence in June. Pampa Norte copper production decreased by 21 per cent to 149 kt, largely due to planned maintenance at Spence. Guidance for FY 2021 has been lowered to between 225 and 255 kt, reflecting COVID-19 related impacts on the ramp-up of the Spence Growth Option (SGO). SGO achieved first copper sales, on schedule, in March 2021, following first copper production in December 2020. The ramp-up to full production capacity at SGO is still on track and is expected to take approximately 12 months from first production, following which Spence is expected to average 300 ktpy of production (including cathodes) over the first four years. Spence’s collective agreement with Union for Operators and Maintainers expires on 30 May 2021, with negotiations for a new agreement currently underway. www.bhp.com

MMG stays on track despite Covid wave APR 22 - MMG Limited first quarter 2021 total

2.5 bn Michiquillay and US$ 2 bn Los Chancas projects and on expanding its smelter, a refinery in Ilo and the processing plant at its Cuajone mine in Moquegua so that it can increase production from 85,000 tonnes ore per day to 120,000 tpd. MAY 7 - Peru’s final two presidential election candidates Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori face a 6 June run-off vote, which may have implications not only for Tia Maria but for the general mining industry there.

recordable injury frequency (TRIF) was 0.79 per million hours worked, an improvement on the full year 2020 TRIF of 1.38. Production results showed 77,328 tonnes of copper and 68,399 t of zinc. Total copper production was in line with plan despite being below prior periods. This was primarily due to lower ore grades reflecting the current phase of the Las Bambas mine plan and the processing of stockpiled ore at Kinsevere. Higher production rates for both are expected in H2 2021 and full year copper production guidance is maintained at between 360 kt and 390 kt. Fewer road disruptions allowed Las Bambas to reduce inventory on site from around 65,000 t of copper in concentrate to around 37,000 t over the quarter. Pending necessary government permitting and community discussions, work continues toward the development of the Chalcobamba pit at Las Bambas in the second quarter of 2021.

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Southern Peru hopes for capital projects MAR 14 - According to a La República report on the V Southern Mining Framework International Congress, Southern Peru Copper is working on a reviewed, basic conceptual engineering plan for the (US$ 1.4 bn) Tia Maria mine, with the goal of submitting it for approval by Grupo Mexico’s board of Directors in April. Construction of the Tía Maria project in the southern Islay province of the Arequipa region was allowed to continue in October 2019 after being halted that August. Besides Tía María, the Grupo Mexico subsidiary is working on the US$

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In brief… APR 22 The EU has cleared the Aurubis and TSR proposal announced in November, allowing for a joint venture (TSR 60 %, Aurubis 40 %) to unite and enhance cable recycling activities of Aurubis subsidiary Cablo Metall-Recycling und Handel GmbH in Fehrbellin (Cablo) and TSR in Gelsenkirchen to recover copper granules and plastics. www.aurubis.com

DEC 18 Rüdiger Schury has become the new Managing Director of hpl-Group. He succeeds Bernd Voshaar, who has stepped down after 35 years to become chairman of the Group’s supervisory board. hplGroup is a specialist for strip processing and machining systems. It worked on modernisation of a 12-roller mill in cooperation with Mills & more in 2020. www.hpl-group.de

MAY 13 China Gold International Resources Corp. Ltd. operational results for Q1 2021 revealed a copper production increase to 22,191 tonnes (+37% y-o-y). The firm’s copper output had increased by 31% to 82,059 t in 2020, with 22,742 t output in the fourth quarter. Commercial production at its Jiama copper gold Phase II Expansion began 3 July 2018. www.chinagoldintl.com

MAY 18 According to Antaike Copper & Copper Fabrication Monthly May 2021, during May there are maintenance checks in TNMG, Yunnan Copper Company, JNMC and Yanggu Xiangguang Copper Company. Recently, 15 large copper smelters jointly announced that total purchase of copper concentrates in 2021 will be reduced by 1.26 Mt (c. 300 kt Cu). www.antaike.com

MAY 18 China imported 912,000 t of refined copper in the first quarter of 2021, with 355,000 t coming in March (+20.26% y-oy), helping driving the import from negative to positive year on year in the first quarter. From January to March, imports of copper concentrate totalled 5.961 Mt, up 7.48% y-o-y, with March imports of 2.171 Mt, up 22.04% y-o-y. www.antaike.com

From January to March, China imported 364,000 t of recycled copper (material weight), up 73.39% y-o-y. In March, the import volume of recycled copper was 172,000 t, up 90.57% y-o-y. The import volume development reflects the new import policy maturing and moves to reduce Chinese dependence on copper concentrate raw material supply. www.antaike.com

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Groundbreaking Udokan Copper project updates

Summary of Jiangxi Copper activity in 2020

DEC 30 - Udokan Copper (previously Baikal Mining Company) is established to develop the Udokan copper deposit in the Kalarsky district of the Transbaikal region in Russia. Processing of Udokan ores is based on a flotationhydrometallurgical flowsheet. Udokan Mining and Metallurgical Plant will produce cathode copper and sulphide concentrate. The production output is projected at 125,000 tonnes per year:

APR 14 - According to its latest Annual Report, Jiangxi Copper Corporation (JCC) produced 1.64 million tonnes (+5.54% y-o-y) of copper cathode and 5.12 Mt (+10.6% y-o-y) of sulphuric acid across its Guixi Smelter, Jiangxi Copper (Qingyuan) Company Limited, JCC Hongyuan Copper Industry Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Jiangtong Fuye Heding Copper Co., Ltd. smelters (4) in 2020. The output of copper processed products was 1.47 Mt (+22.9% y-o-y). The production plan for 2021 is to produce 1.73 Mt of copper cathodes, 97.56 t of gold, 1,679 t of silver, and 1.75 Mt of copper semis. Notably, Jiangxi Copper Huabei (Tianjin) Company Limited completed 220,000 t of copper rod production line and put them into operation, whilst construction of the JCC Guoxing (Yantai) Copper Company Limited 180,000 t copper smelting project started on 18 December 2020.

APR 7 - The sixth ore-grinding mill made by Outotec is installed in the grinding department building at the construction site of the Udokan Mining and Metallurgical Plant. The six mills installed in the building will crush ore to particles with a size of less than 170 microns for subsequent transfer to the flotation line. Two semi-autogenous grinding mills and 4 regrind ball mills will be used at the first stage of the Udokan project providing processing capacity of 12 Mtpy. MAR 25 - Udokan Copper LLC starts the installation of equipment at the construction site of the thickening and decantation area, where the bulk concentrate, which has undergone atmospheric leaching, will undergo the thickening procedure in special tanks. The liquid fraction, in the form of rich solutions, is sent for further processing

to the hydrometallurgical plant. After the countercurrent decantation, the solid sediment is sent to sulphide flotation (beneficiation method). The final sulphide concentrate is thickened and filtered. The result is a commercial sulphide copper concentrate with a copper content of about 45%. FEB 25 - Udokan Copper starts the installation of vertical metal structures for the EW Building. More than half of the metal frame of the SX Building has already been installed. In the SX Building, copper will be removed from aqueous solutions to be sent to electrowinning. According to German Mironov, General Director of Udokan Copper, a number of technologies are envisaged at the stage of hydrometallurgical production that have not yet been implemented at Russian enterprises. The process line for SX process of the hydrometallurgical plant will be formed from modules assembled at the manufacturer’s plant for simpler construction. Since 2006, Udokan copper has had and developed its own pilot plant for integrated process and analytical support of exploration works and deposit appraisal, for pilot plant tests and optimisation of the Udokan deposit ore processing flow sheet. www.bgk-udokan.ru

Sulphur capture contract awarded by Nornickel APR 16 - Nornickel has signed a contract with Velesstroy for a range of construction services as part of its sulphuric acid neutralisation project at Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant. This is a new milestone of the Sulphur Project initiatives, which form a part of the Fresh Air national project. The initiative to be rolled out at NMP relies on sulphur dioxide recovery to produce sulphuric acid as well as gypsum following its subsequent neutralisation with natural limestone. The sulphur dioxide capture is set to reach at least 99% at the affected flash smelters, reducing emissions in Norilsk by at least 45% vs 2015. Velesstroy will build a sulphuric acid storage, limestone reception and crushing facility, slaked lime production facility, and sulphuric acid neutralisation facility. In the latter, the contractor will install 24 units

for slaked lime and sulphuric acid mixing to neutralise and transform sulphuric acid into harmless gypsum slurry. Velesstroy is also going to erect process pipe racks, lay pipelines and service lines. Contract scope includes the supply of equipment and materials, construction and installation, precommissioning, and comprehensive t e s t i n g s u p p o r t . N o r n i c ke l is planning to invest US$ 5.5 billion in this and other environmental initiatives, including waste collection and land rehabilitation in the Norilsk Industrial District, construction of treatment facilities, and safe waste management. Nornickel has embarked upon an initiative to achieve major environmental improvements. www.velesstroy.com www.nornickel.com

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Awards The ‘research and development and application of new generation large and super large 680m 3 flotation equipment’ won the first prize of the China Nonferrous Metals Industrial Science Technology Award. Also, JCC ‘key technology and industrialization of copper anode slime associated rare and precious metals collaborative green extraction’ won the first prize of the Jiangxi Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. Environmental project-wise, the Report says Guixi smelter is seeing reformation of a series of tail gas desulfurisation, reformation of fluorine removal facility in the sulphuric acid workshop, and addition of electric demisting to the tail gas of second sulphuric acid series. Humon Smelting is Investing RMB 11.95 million to upgrade and renovate the smelting ring gas collection and acid-making exhaust treatment facilities. The waste gas was deeply purified by adding bag dust collector, adding gas collecting device, reforming washing spray tower and adding denitrification facilities. www.antaike.com www.en.jxcc.com

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Kamoa-Kakula smelter comes a step nearer

New Monchegorsk refining project outlined

MAR 29 - Following a successful notes of fering, Ivanhoe Mines announces oppor tunities to accelerate future expansions at Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including accelerating the Phase 3 concentrator expansion from 7.6 Mtpy to 11.4 Mtpy and fast-tracking additional hydropower upgrades. Together with equal partner Zijin Mining, Ivanhoe Mines has already accelerated the Phase 2 expansion to begin production in Q3 2022 and bring copper production to approximately 400 ktpy. Kakula is expected to produce an extremely high-grade, clean copper concentrate (containing over 55% copper) that will be highly coveted by smelters around the world. Metallurgical test work indicates that the Kakula concentrates contain extremely low arsenic levels by world standards, at approximately 0.01%. The management team also is evaluating a potential direct-toblister smelter that could bring numerous economic benefits and

MAR 22 - Nornickel plans to construct a new copper refining facility in Monchegorsk. The new facility will be able to produce up to 150 ktpy of copper, which is double the capacity of the smelting shop it closed in March. The plant will use the state of the art roasting-leaching-electroextraction technology, observing the highest environmental standards. There will be a high level of mechanisation, automation, with a much smaller proportion of manual labour than in the closed shop. Closing the smelting shop will reduce sulphur dioxide emissions in Monchegorsk to less than 30 ktpy in 2021.

The Glogow I smelter and Glogow II smelter both use the technology of single-stage flash smelting of copper concentrates directly to blister copper. Photo: KGHM

further reduce the project’s Scope 3 emissions. It is based on Outotec direct-to-blister furnace technology suitable for treating Kakula-type concentrates with relatively high copper/sulphur ratio, and low iron. China Nerin Engineering acted as the main engineering consultant with Outotec. The smelter design capacity is between 750,000 and 1 Mtpy of concentrate feed, producing in excess

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of 400 ktpy copper in the form of blister and anode, with a capital cost in the region of US$ 600 million to be jointly financed with Zijin Mining. The power requirement is approximately 35 MW. On 26 April, Ivanhoe announced it had signed an Agreement with SNEL releasing an additional 162 MW of hydropower (see below).

potential of the plant, introducing the most advanced technologies in the development of mining and processing of raw minerals. The program of modernisation and reconstruction of all structural divisions of JSC Almalyk MMC provides for investments in the amount of more than US$ 2 billion. The project for the development of the Yeshlik-I field is planned to be implemented in two stages. In the 1st stage (2020–24) it is planned to build an open pit at the Yeshlik-I deposit and a processing plant, CPP3, with a capacity of 60 million tons of ore per year. As a result of this first stage, the volume of cathode

Khatoon Abad smelter modernisation NOV 15 - Several development capacity for producing copper anode projects were inaugurated by President Hassan Rouhani in the southeast of Iran in May 2020. The projects at Khatoon Abad Copper Complex in Kerman Province included increasing the capacity of copper smelting in the complex, building a copper concentrate storage, construction of a sulphuric acid production plant, and an oxygen supply unit. The complex’s

rises by 50 percent to 120,000 t, and the country’s copper smelting capacity rises to 400,000 t. Kerman’s Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex and Khatoon Abad Copper Complex produced an aggregate of 313,784 tons of copper anode in 2019, and NICICO reported a 121,202 t combined total in a four month period in mid-2020. www.nicico.com

JUN 1- FLSmidth received a key

copper produced by the plant from local raw materials will be increased from 108,000 tons to 290,000 tons, gold from 15 tons to 38 tons, and silver from 96 tons to 203 tons. In the 2nd stage (2021–25) it is planned to increase and reconstruct the production capacity of the copper smelter. RHI has started construction of CPP-3. Key infrastructure and roads are being built. In addition, 1.3 million cubic meters of earthworks were completed as part of the construction of the factory. RHI is part of Ronesans Endustri Tesisleri İnsaat San. ve Tic. A.S., based in Istanbul, Turkey.

mineral processing technologies order, which was partially booked in Q1 2021. The majority of the close to DKK 200 M value is booked in Q2 2021. Delivery is expected by end H1 2022. The customer is Ausenco Chile Ltd., lump-sum turnkey contractor for the Mantoverde Development Project owned by Mantos Copper Holding. Mantoverde will produce 106,000 t Cu and 33,000 oz of gold annually. The range of equipment and technologies includes the primary gyratory crusher, SAG mill, ball mill, traditional flotation cells, column cells, thickeners, cyclones and pumps. The flotation tailings and slimes thickeners will be designed to optimise the recovery of process water. In total around 4,700 m3/hr overflow water will be available for reuse, a saving that supports FLSmidth’s MissionZero sustainability goal. FLSmidth will also be able to provide comprehensive, longterm operational support at the site, 400 km south of FLSmidth Service Supercenter in Antofagasta.

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JSC Almalyk invests in processing units MAY 2020 - Renaissance Heavy Industries (RHI) has been engaged as a general contractor for the turnkey construction of the CPP-3 copper processing plant for the Almalyk MMC JSC in Uzbekistan. RHI will sign two contracts: for design and engineering work until the end of 2020, and for the supply of turnkey equipment. On May 26, 2020 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan signed a decree ‘On additional measures to expand the production of non-ferrous and precious metals based on the deposits of Almalyk MMC’ no. PP-4731. Its purpose is to increase the production and export

Mantoverde orders key equipment

Wieland U.S. recycling and refining plant MAY 27 - Wieland is to invest US$ 100 million in a recycling and refining center in North America. The site will leverage the latest and most efficient technology to enable the recycling of a broad range of metals and alloys. The recycling center will be located in Shelbyville, KY and employ approx. 75 people. Operations are expected to commence in late 2022.

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Hub facility The new site will serve as a hub for closed-loop recycling and a refining center of third-party scrap utilising state of the art equipment. The investment furthers Wieland’s commitment to empowering its customers with sustainable, carbon neutral products and solutions. www.wieland.com