Global electrification — EVs, renewables, AI data centers, grid expansion — is straining a copper supply chain built on aging giant mines and declining ore grades. Avimetal delivers modular copper processing plants that unlock the deposits, tailings, and concentrates conventional capacity can’t economically serve.
Avimetal’s copper processing platform supports oxide leach / SX–EW, sulfide flotation and downstream refining, and a growing portfolio of copper-rich tailings and slag reprocessing applications. Containerized modules ship pre-integrated and pre-tested, dramatically reducing the construction and commissioning timelines that bottleneck conventional copper projects. Whether you’re a junior with a 5,000 TPD oxide deposit, a mid-tier expanding a brownfield circuit, or a recycler processing copper-bearing residues, our modular approach matches your throughput and timeline rather than forcing you into a fixed plant size.
Recommended Avimetal Stack
- Modular Plant Systems — flow sheets for oxide leach + SX–EW or sulfide flotation
- Crushing & Wet Pulverizing Modules — staged size reduction
- Tornado Mill — fine grinding for low-grade or complex sulfides
- Wet Gravity / Dry Concentration Modules — pre-concentration
- Autoclave Module — high-pressure oxidation for refractory sulfides
- Cyclone Electrowinning System — high-current-density copper cathode production
- Cyclone Electrorefining System — LME Grade A copper finishing
- Hybrid Plasma Smelting — for concentrates, slag, and difficult feedstocks
Why Now
- Multi-decade structural copper deficit driven by electrification and the energy transition
- Average global copper ore grade has fallen below 0.6% — modular tech matches the smaller, lower-grade deposits left to develop
- Permitting timelines for greenfield copper mines now exceed 15 years in many jurisdictions — modular brownfield expansions and reprocessing projects bypass that bottleneck
- Strong policy support for domestic copper supply in the US, EU, Canada, and Australia
Who It's For
Junior copper miners · Mid-tier producers expanding brownfield circuits · SX–EW operators · Copper recyclers and secondary smelters · Tailings reprocessors · Mining majors piloting new technology at scale
Call to Action
Request a Copper Plant Configuration. Tell us your feed material and target cathode or concentrate output — we’ll model the flow sheet and quote a modular deployment.