Kazakhmys Corporation produced 151.2k tons of copper since beginning of year

As told in the corporation, this figure exceeded the same period of the past year (2016) by 8.9 thousand tons (6%).

The average copper content in the ore as a result of the past period was 0.96%, which is higher than the average content of copper in the same period of 2016 (0.94%) and above the planned level of 4.2%.

In addition, for 8 months of 2017, company's enterprises produced 18 million 852, 341 thousand tons of ore. The processing plants of “Kazakhmys” processed 19 million tons of ore.

During 2017, “Kazakhmys Corporation” LLP plans to produce 232.4 thousand tons of copper in cathode equivalent.

"One of the most important priorities that the leadership of Kazakhmys sets itself is not only the preservation of current production volumes, but also the strategic development of the company. With this goal in view, we started implementing a special program to improve the operational efficiency of “Kazakhmys-2020”. Under this program, company's enterprises implement initiatives to reduce the cost of copper production and increase labor productivity. Realization of the program "Kazakhmys - 2020" is carried out by experienced and qualified employees from among company's employees. I am confident that the implementation of “Kazakhmys - 2020” will help us not only to find hidden reserves of productivity, but also to use this potential effectively to bring the company to a qualitatively new level", General Director of the Management Board of “Kazakhmys Corporation” LLP Bakhtiyar Krykpyshev said.

In addition, in 2016, 225,657 tons of copper were produced in cathode equivalent, 2325 kilogram of gold in bars. Kazakhmys - is one of the largest silver producers in the world - in 2016 produced 249.6 tons of refined silver.