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| Plant | Kind | Stage | Country | Operator | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Copper Smelter, Huelva Huelva | Smelter | Processing | Spain | Atlantic Copper (Freeport-McMoRan) | Copper, Gold, Selenium, Silver, Sulfur |
| Bayer-Process Alumina Refineries, Western Australia Kwinana, Pinjarra, Wagerup | Refinery | Processing | Australia | Alcoa of Australia | Alumina, Bauxite, Gallium |
| Guixi Smelter Guixi, Jiangxi | Smelter | Processing | China | Jiangxi Copper | Copper, Gold, Silver, Tellurium |
| Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park Morowali, Central Sulawesi | Smelter | Processing | Indonesia | Tsingshan and partners | Cobalt, Nickel |
| Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant Norilsk | Smelter | Processing | Russia | Nornickel | Copper, Nickel, Palladium, Platinum |
| Port Hedland Pilbara, Western Australia | Port | Processing | Australia | Pilbara Ports with BHP, FMG and Roy Hill | Iron Ore |
| Port of Rotterdam Bulk Terminals Rotterdam | Port | Processing | Netherlands | Multiple terminal operators | Bauxite, Copper, Iron Ore, Metallurgical Coal |
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Atlantic Copper Smelter, Huelva
A smelter's real product list is longer than copper: sulfuric acid, gold, silver, selenium and platinum-group metals…
Bayer-Process Alumina Refineries, Western Australia
Bauxite goes in, alumina powder and red mud come out. The residue is the largest single waste stream in the metals…
Guixi Smelter
More than half of world copper smelting capacity is in China, which means concentrate from Chile and Peru is mostly…
Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park
Indonesia banned raw nickel ore exports and this park is the result: a self-contained city of smelters, power plants…
Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant
Ore mined above the Arctic Circle is smelted on site because shipping raw ore out of Norilsk is impossible for most…
Port Hedland
Almost everything that leaves here is iron ore, loaded from trains up to 2.5 km long onto ships bound for Asian steel…
Port of Rotterdam Bulk Terminals
Ports are where a supply chain becomes visible: iron ore, bauxite, coal and concentrate all arrive as bulk cargo and…