In late February, Zijin Mining Group’s subsidiary Xinjiang Ashele Copper Co., Ltd. received the title of “National High-tech Enterprise” from Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.
Ashele Copper Company owns a large-scale copper mine in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and highly focuses on talents and science and technology development. It has cooperated with many Chinese scientific research institutes, and is a leader in mining and processing technology.
In order to improve the rate of ore resources utilization, Ashele Copper Company establishes R&D center and adopts large, intelligent and automatic equipments, applying high efficiency eco-friendly separating process. Ashele Copper Company has achieved multiple invention patents. In particularly, the Technical Research of Large-scale Safe Mining in Ore Pillars between Large Backfill received the Safety Production Technology Achievement Award and China Nonferrous Metal Industry Science and Technology Award.