Economic & Technical Development Zone
Qujing City
Yunnan Province
China
650000

Yunnan Chihong Zinc & Germanium Co., Ltd. was established on 18th July 2000 and headoffice is located at Economic & Technical Development Zone, Qujing City, Yunnan Province. The company mainly focus on mining, mineral processing, import & export business and domestic trade of Lead, Zinc and Germanium series products, it has a complete set of facilities and equipments for exploration, mining, ore dressing, smelting as well as chemical industry and scientific research. The company was listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange on 20th April, 2004 with SSE 600497.
The major sponsor of the company-Yunnan Huize Lead & Zinc Mine was established on 5th January 1951. It was one of the 156 key construction projects during the first “five-year plan” in China as well as the first enterprise that carried out the fuming enrichment technology to treat the low grade paragenesis ores which were difficult to process, meanwhile it could also treat both the oxide ores and sulfide ores. In addition, it is also the earliest company who extracted germanium from the lead-zinc oxide ores.
The company has implemented advanced, proven technology and processes along with the large-scale automated equipments. The company has introduced ISASMELT TSL smelting technology to produce lead which solved the pollution problem caused by SO2 produced during smelting. The largest roaster in China and world-2 class zinc striping machine can be found in the zinc plant, the whole production line are controlled through the automatic control with network systems. The company also introduced X-ray fluorescence analyzer, spectral analyzer, ICP, atomic absorbed spectrum analyzer, and atomic & fluorometric analyzer. Such big analysis and instrumental equipments strictly ensure the product qualities.
Lead, zinc and germanium series products have been sold well both in domestic and overseas market. The output and quality of germanium products rank top one in the country;Silver is neaning completion of registration at the LBMA, zinc and lead product are all LME registered brand, meanwhile the company is the only one in China that has been approved by LME as zinc tester.
The company is share-controlled by Yunnan Metallurgical Group Co., Ltd(YMGCO). Chihong is dedicated to developing one of five major fields of YMGCO –Lead and Zinc field. It owns mines and share-controlling companies at Huize, Qujing, Zhaotong, Jianshui,Lancang,Longling in Yunnan Province , also in Hei longjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningnan in Sichuan as well as in Australia and Canada. At current, the company has formed comprehensive capacity as the following; mining capacity of 800kt/y, electrolytic zinc capacity of 180kt/y, electrolytic lead capacity of 100kt/y, germanium of 30t/y, silver of 150t, gold 120kg ,sulfuric acid of 13 million t/y. By the end of “ twelfth five-year” ,the company will form the following capacity: zinc output of 700kt/y,lead output of 300kt/y,silver 400t/y, gold of 800kg, germanium of 40t/y, indium 30t/y, Cadmium of 800t/y, bismuth of 300t/y, sulfuric acid 1.3million t/y. At that time,the company will form several production base at home and abroad. Now the zinc ingot with “Yin Xin” brand ,” lead ingot with “ Jin Sha” brand, germanium series products with “ Yin Jing” brand ,sulfuric acid with “Hua Da” have earned good reputation in the market. In order to implement the brand strategy, the company will change all the brands for the products into the common trade brand” Chihong Zn & Ge” from 2010