Copper mining business with a SX-EW plant in Kazakhstan
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Copper Mining Business with a SX-EW plant (JORC certified) in Kazakhstan is for sale.
This deposit has been key feeder for the giant Balkhash smelter, responsible for 65% of Kazakhstan’s copper production. Dumps of over 300 mln ton accumulated from 40 years of operation.
Resource analysis
- Wardell Armstrong (MRI, PCR) 2020
During 2015-2016 the company undertook exploration:
- Reverse circulation (RC) drilling – 47 holes
- Surface pitting – 141
- Toe pitting – 26
- More than 900 ore samples
SX-EW plant results
- The pilot plant commissioned in autumn 2017 and produced first copper in November 2017.
- Following remedial work on the leaching pad and collection system in spring of 2018, the plant has reached a steady-state production with PLS ERE grcae of 1.5-1.6 g/L, and average daily production of 200 kg of copper cathode
- Over 36 tons of cathode copper sold on the local market at near LME prices.
- 1.2 km electric line fo the site and 630 kW transformer — completed and connected fo local electric grid
- 400 m access road to the site — completed
- 1.1 km water pipeline fo the site — completed
- Building for the SX-EW pilot plant — completed, insulation and ventilation installed
- 1 km of piping for the heap irrigation — purchased, connected and laid out
- Ponds and collection trenches — completed and lined with geomembrane
SX-EW Business Model
- Planned annual production: 10,000 tons of LME grade “A” cathode copper
- A 23-year copper production contract with the government of Kazakhstan signed in May 2017.
Key production cost drivers:
- Chemicals & Reagents and Power (variable) — favorable geographic location helps keeping these costs low
- Labor and Production Overheads (fixed)
- Mineral Extraction Tax @ 5.7% on value of copper in PLS
- Distribution & Selling — mix of fixed and variable driven by local Infrastructure and T&C of the oft-take contract
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Turkish lira (₺)
Indian rupee (₹)
Chinese yuan (¥)
Iranian rial (IR)
Kazakhstani tenge (₸)
Belarusian ruble (Br)
Georgian lari (₾)
Serbian dinar (din)
Indonesian rupiah (Rp)
Qatari rial (QR)
Azerbaijani manat (₼)
UAE Dirham (Dh)
Tajik somoni (с.)
Uzbek sum (сўм)
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Vietnamese dong (₫)
Armenian dram (֏)
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Egyptian pound (LE)
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Euro (€)
100,000,000 $
709,805,737 ¥
709,805,737 ¥
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