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.

About Zijin Mining
Zijin Mining is a leading global metals and mining company and one of the world’s largest producers of gold, copper, and zinc. The company has more than 30 large-scale mining operations and projects across 19 countries on 5 continents. Leveraging strong in-house research, engineering, and development capabilities, Zijin maintains high operational efficiency and low costs in both acquisitions and operations. This enables the company to be an industry leader in value creation, underpinned by its philosophy of pursuing development for all and sustained by superior environmental, social, and governance performance. Zijin’s shares trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX: 2899) and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE: 601899).