Business Chief Europe Magazine March 2015 | Page 76

“ The uranium mines require the acid to leach out the uranium and the miners are keen to get their sulphuric acid locally as opposed to shipping in from other parts of the world ”

– Rick Howes , CEO
specialised smelter which processes complex copper concentrates produced at Chelopech , having once served the notorious Tsumeb copper mine .
Since buying the site in 2010 having been a customer of the previous owner , the company has invested around $ 350 million on modernisation , $ 242 million of which on a sulphuric acid plant which converts smelting emissions into product which is then sold onto Namibian clients .
Rossing Uranium Limited has already signed a five-year contract for 225,000 tons a year of sulphuric acid for use in its uranium mine , with local logistics operator TransNamib doing the transportation work by train .
Weatherly International is another customer
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