The smelter produced the first anodes in December 2025, approximately five weeks after the start of its heat-up process.

The ramp-up of the Kamoa-Kakula copper smelter will continue throughout 2026, with completion expected towards year-end.

Kamoa-Kakula smelter is Africa's largest copper smelter with a capacity of 500,000 tonnes of copper per annumKamoa-Kakula ...

Ivanhoe Mines ( ($TSE:IVN) ) has provided an announcement. Ivanhoe Mines has produced the first copper anodes from its new 500,000-tonne-per-year ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday reversed a Biden-era air pollution rule that had imposed stricter limits on emissions from copper smelters. The copper rule, finalized in ...

This month, U.K. Consul General in Vancouver Thomas Codrington urged B.C. to develop midstream mining capacity, saying it ...

The South Australian government has initiated the application and assessment process for BHP's (NYSE:BHP) proposed expansion of its Olympic Dam copper smelter and refinery. If approved, this project ...

HANOI/BEIJING/LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Global miners on Friday reached agreements with Chinese smelters for a lower copper concentrate treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for 2024, the first drop ...

TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines has announced that the first copper anodes were produced by Kamoa-Kakula’s on-site, state-of-the-art ...

The facility, with a steady-state capacity of 500,000 tonnes per annum, would be the largest in Africa once ramped up.