smelter · China
Hunan Antimony Smelter
Smelting capacity in the historic centre of global antimony production.
OperatingProductionProject score 77
Operator
Independent
Country
China
Mine life
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Capex
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Profile
Resource, economics and jurisdiction
- Resource
- Processes domestic and imported antimony concentrate.
- Production
- A dominant share of global antimony trioxide output.
- Economics
- Export licensing has materially changed western market access.
- Infrastructure
- Established regional chemical and metallurgical cluster.
- Jurisdiction
- Elevated policy risk
- Ownership
- Chinese antimony producers
- Region
- Hunan
Overview
What this asset is
Smelting capacity in the historic centre of global antimony production.
Methodology
Earthern Project Score 77
Version v0.1
- Resource Quality
- 76 (weight 1.2) — Grade, continuity and metallurgical complexity of the resource.
- Project Scale
- 77 (weight 1) — Annual output potential relative to the global market for its primary mineral.
- Development Stage
- 81 (weight 0.9) — How far the asset has advanced toward or through production.
- Jurisdiction
- 82 (weight 1.1) — Political stability, permitting predictability and rule of law.
- Infrastructure
- 73 (weight 0.9) — Access to power, water, transport and processing capacity.
- Economics
- 84 (weight 1.2) — Cost position and margin resilience through the price cycle.
- Strategic Importance
- 77 (weight 1) — Relevance to national critical mineral strategies and allied supply chains.
- Supply-Chain Value
- 81 (weight 1) — Whether the asset relieves a genuine downstream bottleneck.
- Sustainability
- 68 (weight 0.9) — Carbon intensity, water use, tailings approach and community standing.
- Execution Risk
- 72 (weight 1) — Technical, financing and schedule risk to reaching nameplate output. Higher is lower risk.
Materials
Minerals produced
Assets