Hindustan Zinc, CIMIC set up India’s first zinc tailings recycling facility

India-based producer Hindustan Zinc has awarded contracts to CIMIC Group companies Sedgman and Leighton Asia for the development of India’s first zinc tailings recycling facility at its flagship Rampura Agucha Mines (RAM) in Rajasthan.        The Rampura Agucha facility will feature advanced processing techniques to recover metals like zinc and silver from previously processed tailings, transforming legacy waste…

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Hindustan Zinc may enter uranium market

Indian zinc-silver producer Hindustan Zinc will aim to expand into uranium mining if the government opens up the sector to private players, CEO Arun Misra told Reuters. Government sources told the news agency that India wants to allow private firms to mine, import and process uranium as part of plans to end a decades-old state monopoly over the nuclear sector…

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