Zijin Mining Kakula Copper Mine Phase II will be commissioned with materials in April 2022

The Congo (DRC) Kamoa-Kakula copper mine is Zijin Mining's blockbuster project to achieve leapfrog growth. The construction project of the 3.8 million-ton ore processing plant in the second phase of the project is advancing rapidly, with about 93% expected to be completed by the end of January, and will enter the trial run stage with materials in April this year. The overall progress is significantly ahead of the original second quarter. Based on a 100 per cent equity, the planned 2022 target for the Kamoa-Kakula copper mine is to produce 29-340000 tonnes of copper metal.

Kamoa-Kakula Copper Concentrator

Cumulative Copper Production May-December 2021

Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine I The 3.8 million-ton plant officially produced the first batch of copper concentrates in May 2021, reaching the design capacity quickly in September of that year, setting a new "Zijin speed". The actual production capacity of the first phase of the plant has been higher than the design capacity of more than 15%, copper recovery rate continued to climb, the overall more than the design recovery rate of 86%. In 2021, the Kamoa-Kakula copper mine produced a total of 105900 tons of copper-containing metal in concentrate, far exceeding the planned target of 9.25-100000 tons for that year.

Project construction scenario

Relying on the effective cooperation between Zijin Mining and Ivanhoe Mining, the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine has accumulated rich construction and development experience during the first phase of construction, laying a solid foundation for the commissioning of the feeding rate during the commissioning of the second phase of the concentrator and the realization of capacity climbing over time. A high-level professional and technical team has been introduced into the project site, and is planning ahead of schedule to jointly design a ramp-up of the first and second phase concentrators, striving to increase the processing capacity of the two phases from 7.6 million tons/year to 9 million tons/year. It is expected that after the two phases of concentrators achieve stable production, the maximum amount of copper metal in the concentrate produced by Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine will reach 450000 tons per year.

One train fleet to transport concentrate for export to the international market

The construction of the third phase of the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine has also achieved "neck and neck", and the construction of the new ramp wellhead is advancing rapidly and is expected to be put into operation in the fourth quarter of 2024; The third phase of expansion will also cover the construction of a 500000-ton/year crude copper smelter. It is planned to complete the basic engineering design in the second quarter of this year. The design scale of the smelter will cover the first, second and third phases of Kamoa Kakula. Most of the copper concentrates of the concentrator will become the largest copper smelter in Africa. The overall pre-feasibility study of the project will be updated and released in the third quarter of this year, which will cover the third phase of the expansion plan.

Farmer of Mumba Farm in Mine Community

Kamoa-Kakula is expected to become the world's highest grade large copper mine, with an initial annual processing of 3.8 million tons of ore, and an average selected copper grade of more than 6.0 per cent in the first five years after production. After the first phase is put into operation, the annual output of copper is expected to be about 200000 tons, and the cumulative annual output of copper will reach 400000 tons after the second phase of expansion is put into operation, which will make Kamoa copper mine one of the top ten copper mines in the world.

According to the ranking of independent research institutions, once the project expands its production capacity to 19 million tons/year of ore, the project will become the world's second largest copper mine, with a maximum annual output of more than 800,000 tons of copper. At the same time, according to the independent audit of the Canadian company Hatch, the project will become one of the world's lowest per unit of copper greenhouse gas emissions of mines.

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