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

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.

The organization put the amount of produced copper anode at 259,812 tons in the nine-month period of this year, and at 256,541 tons in the first nine months of the previous year. Given the ...

Sixty-five miles east of the sun-drenched city of Tucson, Arizona, lies the historic copper mine, Johnson Camp. Active on and off since the 1970s, the mine is being resurrected in response to a ...

North Carolina joint venture to purchase 50,000-tons-per-year secondary smelter from European firm. SMS Group will supply the Ames Copper Group in North Carolina with equipment, including an anode ...

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