RE: Support Levels.18 Mar 2026 08:12
Sable Zinc Kabwe is a copper and cobalt processing facility established to treat the concentrate from Ruashi, and other ore suppliers. The sulphuric acid plant supplies Sable needs, and the excess production is sold to the other Zambian Copperbelt and the DRC oxide copper producers. With the introduction of the Ruashi Phase II plant, Sable will be required to source ore and/or concentrate from third party suppliers.
The zinc processing plant was commissioned, within the budget of US$5 million, midway through the financial year, but due to the lower zinc price, the facility was converted to a cobalt leaching facility to add better value to Sable. This has further improved the recoveries of cobalt. The zinc tailings dumps remain to be processed at a later stage.