Inner Mongolia copper concentrate imports to rise significantly

On November 10, China's largest port - statistically released in Inner Mongolia, manchuria, November 1, 2013 enterprises in Inner Mongolia to import 337000 tons of copper concentrate, up 33.5% from a year earlier, the trade is $580 million, among them, the South American countries and Mongolian as the main source of imports.
In November, according to data from 2013 years ago, since the South American country of Inner Mongolia and Mongolia imports of copper concentrate as high as 165000 tons.In addition, the export of more than ten thousand tons of copper concentrate in Inner Mongolia have Turkey, the United States, Bulgaria, Australia, etc.

Manzhouli customs census and statistics department section chief leader, based on the analysis on the cause of the copper concentrate imports increased significantly when pointed out that the global copper concentrate refining processing fee (TC/RC) rising stimulated domestic copper smelting enterprises incentive to produce, so as to pull the imports of copper concentrate.In addition, copper output from all over the world continue to rise in recent years, the international market prices fall, this has also become one of the important factors that attract domestic companies to increase imports.


Learned, copper is one of the earliest human discovery and use of metal, copper concentrate is of low grade copper ore after beneficiation process to achieve a certain quality of concentrate, can be directly for smelting copper smelting.Over the past 20 years, due to the reduced ore grade, copper concentrate supply develops slowly, in recent 20 years, worldwide, the grade of copper from 1.45% to 1.12%.