Hindustan Copper Ltd. is a central public sector undertaking under the

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of Ministry of Mines,

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. HCL is the only vertically integrated government-owned-copper producer in India engaged in a wide spectrum of activities ranging from

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and continuous cast rod manufacturer. HCL shares are listed at

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exchanges. On 31 July 2015, the

announced a 15% stake sale in Hindustan Copper Limited, reducing its stake from 89.5% to 74.5%.

Origin

Hindustan Copper Ltd. (HCL) was incorporated on 9 November 1967 to take over the plants and mines at Khetri, Kolihan in Rajasthan and Rakha Copper Project in Jharkhand from

National Mineral Development Corporation NMDC Limited, formerly National Mineral Development Corporation, is a central public sector undertaking. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Steel, Government of India. It is involved in the exploration of iron ore, copper, rock phosphat ...

. The central office is located at

which is the capital of the

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state in India. In 1972 Indian Copper Corporation Limited,

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Company, located at Ghatsila,

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . I ...

with Smelter and

Refinery A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value. Types of refineries Different types of refineries ...

was Nationalized and made part of HCL. Hindustan Copper Limited developed Malanjkhand Copper Project in

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the second ...

, the largest hard rock

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in the country which was dedicated to the nation on 12 November 1982. Further in 1990 a Continuous Cast Wire Rod plant of South Wire Technology was commissioned at Taloja in

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Services

HCL also produces gold silver, nickel

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tellurium Tellurium is a chemical element with the symbol Te and atomic number 52. It is a brittle, mildly toxic, rare, silver-white metalloid. Tellurium is chemically related to selenium and sulfur, all three of which are chalcogens. It is occasionall ...

and

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as by products. It is the first Indian Copper Producer to be

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with

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certification for Continuous Cast Rod Manufacturer at its Taloja Plant and for manufacture of

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at its

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both at Indian Copper Complex, Ghatsila,

and Khetri Copper Complex,

Khetri Khetri Nagar is the town in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan in India. It is a part of the Shekhawati region. Khetri consists of two towns, "Khetri Town" founded by Raja Khet Singhji Nirwan and "Khetri Nagar" which is about 10 km away f ...

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Hindustan Copper Limited is engaged in

and

of copper, having its production facilities and offices at various locations across the country. On 29 June 2012, CMD of the company said that construction of a smelting refinery at Visakhapatnam with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonne at a cost of ₹20 billion is under consideration.

Units

Khetri Copper Complex

Located in the state of

, from

* Capacity - 31,000 tpa copper cathode (the smelter and acid plant at KCC are under shutdown since late 2008 due to the slump in global commodity prices witnessed in 2008 and old machinery. Currently, only concentrator for production of copper concentrate is working in addition to associated mines.) *

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*Mines -

and Kolihan (producing 9,500 mt metal in concentrate / annum) *Reserve **Khetri 34.56 million tonnes @ 1.13% cu **Kolihan 22.45 million tonnes @ 1.33% cu **Banwas 24.97 million tonnes @ 1.69% cu

Indian Copper Complex

Located in the state of

*Capacity 16,500 tpa copper cathode *By products

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, gold, silver,

palladium Palladium is a chemical element with the symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself ...

, nickel

*Mines -

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*Reserve **Surda 19.30 million tonnes @1.17% cu

Malanjkhand Copper Project

Located in

from

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, from

Raipur Raipur ( ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Raipur is also the administrative headquarters of Raipur district and Raipur division, and the largest city of the state. It was a part of Madhya Pradesh before the state of Ch ...

*Capacity open cast mine with a capacity of 2 million tonnes with matching concentrator *Mines -

Malanjkhand Malanjkhand also referred to as MCP (acronym for Malanjkhand Copper Project) is an open-pit copper mine in India, located near the town of Malanjkhand, northeast of Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh, at an altitude of 576 MRL. It falls in the tehsil ...

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208.030 million tonnes @1.3% cu *Features of the open pit mine **length 2600 meter **Width 700 meter **Planned depth: 240 meter below average ground level The open pit mine has reached ultimate pit depth and further it's not economically viable to exploit the mineral with open pit mining, Hence the mine is being converted to underground mines with enhanced capacity of 5 million tonnes with an investment to the tune of 2000 crores.

Taloja Copper Project

Located in the state of

, district- Raigad, from

*Capacity 60,000 tpa continuous cast copper rod - hindcop rods
Taloja Copper Project of Hindustan Copper Ltd. installed capacity of 60,000 tonnes. *Technology plant is based on the latest 'southwire technology' *Product range 8 mm, 11 mm, 12.5 mm, 16 mm and 19 mm cc rod

References

External links

Official websiteDivestment of Hindustan Copper Ltd in coming fiscal-Source-Economic Times

Latest Recruitment NotificationHindustan Copper Ltd. News-Source Google FinanceHindustan Copper sees stake sale OK next week-Source-2 Jun 2010, Reuters
{{authority control Copper mining companies of India Government-owned companies of India Ministry of Mines (India) Companies based in Kolkata Non-renewable resource companies established in 1967 Indian companies established in 1967 1967 establishments in West Bengal Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange