The facility, with a steady-state capacity of 500,000 tonnes per annum, would be the largest in Africa once ramped up.
Kamoa-Kakula produced 388,838 tonnes of copper in concentrate in 2025, achieving guidanceIvanhoe confirms previously set 2026 Kamoa-Kakula production guidance of 380,000 to 420,000 tonnes of copper99.
Metso’s Direct Blister Furnace has been successfully started up at Kamoa Copper’s Kamoa Kakula copper smelter in the ...
Kamoa-Kakula spent 2025 tackling water inflows that restricted access to higher‑grade ore and weighed on recoveries.
According to data from the General Administration of Customs, China imported 61,300 mt of copper anodes (HS code: 74020000) in December 2025, up 5.15% MoM but down 23.52% ...
The recovery and separation of tellurium and other valuable metals from copper anode slime represents a significant advance in both sustainable resource utilisation and environmental management.
China's December copper concentrate import data guide the future supply-demand balance of copper concentrate in ...
Metso has launched a fully electric Anode Weighing and Casting Machine, which incorporates the latest Outotec Casting Control system with self-diagnostic and machine intelligence capabilities, to ...
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Ivanhoe Mines begins copper anode production at smelter in Africa
The smelter produced the first anodes in December 2025, approximately five weeks after the start of its heat-up process.
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