Umicore provides valuable recovery services to the zinc industry, sourcing byproducts globally to extract precious and minor metals like silver, lead, and copper. The zinc industry often concentrates these valuable metals into saleable byproducts, which we process to recover their full value. Typical materials we handle include lead sulphate, containing significant amounts of lead and silver; copper cement, which serves as the outlet for copper from a zinc refinery; silver concentrate, generated to recover the silver from zinc plants; and drosses and skimmings from the remelting of anodes in zinc operations.

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