AMMC to build new copper processing plants

According to the leadership of the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex (AMMC), it is planned to build a new copper processing plant soon. The TOMS Research and Design Institute (Russia) will develop a project for the new factory, which is scheduled to be commissioned by 2022.

The plant will use rational schemes for the minerals enrichment, which, among other things, will help increase the output of copper, molybdenum and gold. The Russian Institute should foresee the possibility of processing oxidized ores, slags and tailings of the old tailing pond, which will also allow to increase the copper and gold production.

The Institute will be involved in the modernization of two operating copper enrichment plants in the coming year.

These factories are now processing sulphide copper-molybdenum ores from the Kalmaqir and Sary-Cheku deposits, from which, in addition to non-ferrous metals, precious and rare metals are extracted.