Guixi Smelter

The Guixi Smelter is a copper smelter in Jiangxi province in inland southeastern China owned by Jiangxi Copper. It is the world's largest copper smelter, and China is as of 2024 the world's largest refined copper producer and consumer.[1] In 2015 it had an annual production capacity of 900,000 tons of copper.[2] The copper smelter is a significant source of pollution in the area with a dissemination of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead and zinc.[3] By 2025 it was estimated to have a sulphur collection efficiency of about 97%.[4]

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References

  1. ^ "China's copper smelters to discuss fees as crisis roils sector". mining.com. 20 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
  2. ^ Costabal M., Francisco (10 June 2015). Fundiciones de Cobre en Chile (PDF) (Report) (in Spanish). SONAMI. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  3. ^ Xiao, Hua-Yun; Jiang, Shui-Ying; Wu, Dai-She; Wen-Bin, Zhou (2011). "Risk Element (As, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn) Contamination of Soils and Edible Vegetables in the Vicinity of Guixi Smelter, South China". Soil and Sediment Contamination. 20 (5): 592–604. Bibcode:2011SSCIJ..20..592X. doi:10.1080/15320383.2011.587047.
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