Hindalco Industries Ltd, owns 51per cent of Aditya Birla Minerals Ltd., (ABML) a company having 100 per cent holding in Birla Nifty Pty Limited and Birla Mt. Gordon Pty Limited located in Western Australia and Queensland, respectively. ABML, an S&P ASX 300 Index company, is the largest pure copper company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Birla Nifty Pty Limited
The Nifty copper operation consists of an open pit mine, heap leach pads and a solvent extraction and electro winning (SX–EW) processing plant, which produces copper cathode. Birla Nifty's copper cathode capacity is 25 ktpa. Open pit mining was completed in 2006. During FY2008, Nifty produced 5,112 tonnes of copper cathode.

A copper sulphide deposit is located at the lower levels of the Nifty open pit mine and an underground mine and concentrator have been developed to mine and process ore from this deposit. The Nifty Sulphide Operation, commenced ore production from stoping in December 2005 and concentrate production in March 2006. During FY2008, Nifty produced 53,397 tonnes of copper in concentrate.

Birla Mt. Gordon Pty Limited
Mt. Gordon operations include underground mining operations and a concentrator plant with a milling capacity to process up to 1.5 mtpa of ore to produce copper in concentrate.

The Mt Gordon copper operation consists of an underground mine and a copper concentrate plant. Until recently, the operation produced copper cathode through the ferric leach process. In 2004, a copper concentrator was commissioned to provide concentrate for use at Hindalco’s operations in Dahej. During FY2008, Mt Gordon produced 23,886 tonnes of copper in cathode / concentrate.

Both Nifty and Mt Gordon have a long term life of mine off-take agreement with Hindalco for supply of copper concentrate to the Copper Smelter at Dahej, Gujarat.

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