Korea Zinc Uses Resource Recycling to Sustain Zinc Smelting Profitability
As global zinc raw material prices rise and squeeze smelters’ margins, Korea Zinc highlights earnings resilience from resource recycling, urban mining, and byproduct recovery technology championed by Chairman Choi Yun-beom. With mine production weakening and smelting fees turning negative, more processing means higher losses. Preliminary ILZSG data show global zinc mine output fell 2.6% year over year, while KDB analysis points to South Korea’s smelting capabilities for rare-earth supply diversification.