Private company | |
Industry | Metal mining |
Founded | 2000 |
Headquarters | Xining, Qinghai, People's Republic of China |
Area served
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People's Republic of China |
Key people
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Chairman: Mr. Wang Haitao |
Website | Western Mining Company Limited |
Coordinates: 36°38′34.8″N 101°45′41.5″E / 36.643000°N 101.761528°E
Western Mining Company Limited (: ) is a private company in northwest China engaged in the mining, smelting, and trading of alloy and metal minerals, including copper, lead, zinc, iron, manganese, gold, silver, and aluminum. It is headquartered in Xining, Qinghai. It is currently China’s second-largest producer of lead concentrate, fourth-largest producer of zinc concentrate, and seventh-biggest producer of copper concentrate with extraction rights in many metal mines overseas.
Its A shares were listed on the in 2007.
In 2008, the company began trial production at a smelter at its Yulong copper mine in Tibet.