Yunnan Copper Co.,Ltd

Chinese copper miner and smelter producing cathode copper and precious metals

What Yunnan Copper does

Yunnan Copper explores for, mines, and smelts copper ore in China, turning it into refined cathode copper. Because copper ore also contains other valuable elements, the company recovers gold, silver, and rare metals like molybdenum, platinum, palladium, selenium, and tellurium as by-products, and converts the sulfur in the ore into industrial sulfuric acid. It also searches for gold, silver, lead, and zinc deposits, and runs trading, import/export, and rental businesses on the side.

How Yunnan Copper makes money

It makes money by selling refined metal products—mainly cathode copper, plus gold, silver, sulfuric acid, and rare and dispersed metals—at prevailing commodity prices, with margins driven by the spread between ore/concentrate costs and metal prices. Additional revenue comes from trading goods such as coal, coke, chemicals, and fuel oil, import/export services, and renting out property and equipment.

Products & services

• Tiefeng-brand cathode copper
• Gold and silver bullion
• Industrial sulfuric acid
• Rare and dispersed metals (molybdenum, platinum, palladium, selenium, tellurium)
• Copper mining and mineral exploration
• Commodity trading and import/export (coal, coke, chemicals, fuel oil)