Asian Metal visits Shandong Humon

On the morning of 17 December, Ms Alina Fang, Antimony Consultant of Asian Metal, visited Shandong Humon Smelting Co.,Ltd and held an in-depth communication on the development status of the antimony market and the supply of gold antimony raw materials in 2024 with the VP Mr. Weike Gao and manager Ms. Yujuan Li and minister Mr. Fa Zhong. In 2024, China imported about 8,371 tons of gold antimony ore from Russia, and the import volume in 2024 has been only 491 tons so far, and China imported 285,000 tons of gold from Russia in January-November 2024. Mr. Gao said that with the decline in the production of local gold and antimony mines in Russia, imports from Russian gold and antimony mines will decline sharply in 2025.

At present, the company has built a number of production process systems such as matte capture gold, high lead lift gold, etc. Among them, matte production is the core production process of the company.Through inde- pendent innovation, the company has successfully. broken through the technology of arsenic collection by cold-dry method in the oxygen-en-riched bottom blowing smelting system, and developed the fine arsenic tri- oxide - metal arsenic production line, which integrated arsenic treatment and industrialization, and established the Humon model of global arsenic treatment. Therefore, the company has also obtained the National Devel-opment and Reform Commission"solid waste resources" major special support. At present, the company has realized the supply to the domestic leading enterprises in the field of microelectronics semiconductor, so that China's high-end core equipment with its own ma- terials, to solve the "bottleneck" problem for the country.

Shandong Humon Smelting Co., td. is a domestic comprehensive at the same time, complete professional gold copper, gold lead and rare metals, semi-metal mixed smelting, refining and processing enterprises.At the same time. the company is also widely engaged in non-ferrous metal mining, chemical industry, high purity metal materials research and development and production, mineral resources international trade and other fields. The company has established a set of "prospecting, mining, dressing, smelting, refining, deep processing" as one of the complete industrial system, and in semiconductor materials and other high-purity metal new materials began to layout. At present, the annual production capacity of the company's leading products is 50 tons of gold, 1200 tons of silver, 250,000 tons of elec-trolytic copper,100,000 tons of electrolytic lead, 1.3 million tons of sulfuric acid, and can comprehensively recover antimony white, bismuth ingot, tellurium ingot, selenium dioxide, arsenic metal and other rare metals.

As a years-long partner of Asian Metal, Humon has been referring to market information and prices provided by Asian Metal for a long time. Humon thought highly of objective, fair and timely market information provided by Asian Metal and also gave positive comments on previous antimony summits held by Asian Metal, planning to join in the 11th Antimony Forum to be held by Asian Metal in Xiamen on March 20-21, 2025.