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

Kamoa-Kakula spent 2025 tackling water inflows that restricted access to higher‑grade ore and weighed on recoveries.

Kamoa-Kakula produced 388,838 tonnes of copper in concentrate in 2025, achieving guidanceIvanhoe confirms previously set 2026 Kamoa-Kakula production guidance of 380,000 to 420,000 tonnes of copper99.

The recovery and separation of tellurium and other valuable metals from copper anode slime represents a significant advance in both sustainable resource utilisation and environmental management.

Metso is launching a fully electric Anode Weighing and Casting Machine to address the needs of the copper processing industry. The new solution takes advantage of the latest Outotec Casting Control ...

Lithium metal shows great promise as an anode material for next-generation high-energy-density batteries. However, the issues of dendrite growth and huge volume fluctuations that occur with lithium ...

The smelter produced the first anodes in December 2025, approximately five weeks after the start of its heat-up process.