On 27 November, Mr. Kisanda Felicien Makonga, Chief of the Kazembe region in Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and a key traditional leader of the host communities for Zijin’s local subsidiary COMMUS, visited Zijin’s headquarters. In a significant gesture, he donated his personal malachite-copper staff to the Zijin Geology and Mineral Museum, marking a memorable moment in t...

Environmental remediation results at Serbia Zijin Copper  Entrance to the old smelter in Bor before Serbia Zijin Copper became its operator Entrance to the smelter now operated by Serbia Zijin Copper The smelter before Serbia Zijin Copper became its operator The modernized smelter now operated by Serbia Zijin Copper Lake Robule in the pre-Zijin era Lake Robule after remediation by Zijin Slope with...

“Our goal is very clear: to establish our operations in Serbia as a benchmark not only within Zijin but also for the European and the global mining industry,” said Chen Jinghe, Chairman of Zijin Mining, during an interview with journalists from mainstream Serbian media. He emphasized that the company has developed a detailed roadmap for green mining, with renewable energy generation as a highlight...

Serbia Zijin Copper’s TIR Smelter “I’ve worked at the smelter for more than 20 years. In the past, the air was thick with smoke, and I could smell the stench even with a gas mask on,” recalled an engineer at Serbia Zijin Copper’s TIR smelter. Bare hills, grey plant premises, and a city shrouded in haze — that was the daily reality of the century-old mining town of Bor. Facing severe legacy environ...

Time is often the most honest witness to change. In December 2018, when the Zijin team first arrived in the old mining town of Bor, Serbia, they were met with both anticipation and skepticism. How could they reinvigorate a struggling century-old copper operation? How could a resource company coexist with and even thrive alongside the local population? Seven years on, the answers can be found in th...

Bor, Serbia – Milica Mladenović, a senior geologist at Serbia Zijin Copper, never thought her life would change so much for the better after Zijin invested in Serbia’s Bor Copper Complex and became its operator in 2018.   The copper mining complex was once the economic backbone of Bor, an old mining town. But by late 2018, after years of losses, the operation’s workforce’s dropped from the peak of...