Nchanga Smelter
A state-of-the-art smelter has been commissioned at Nchanga which will smelt low energy Nchanga and Konkola concentrates to produce 300 000 tonnes of copper per annum. Using the Flash Smelting Direct to Blister Technology from Outokumpu of Finland, this smelter is environment friendly as a new Sulphuric Acid Plant which is has been built alongside it captures all the sulphur gases to produce sulphuric acid which is used at the Tailings Leach Plant within Nchanga Mine. The Sulphuric Acid Plant has a production capacity of 1 850 tonnes of acid per day.