Hindustan Copper spurts on inaugurating nickel plant at Ghatsila

11 Aug 2016 Evaluate

Hindustan Copper is currently trading at Rs 59.65, up by 0.30 points or 0.51% from its previous closing of Rs 59.35 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 59.90 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 60.30 and Rs. 59.35 respectively. So far 8397 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 68.80 on 14-Jul-2016 and a 52 week low of Rs. 42.30 on 19-Feb-2016.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 63.40 and Rs. 59.10 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 5528.18 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 89.95%, while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 7.48% and 2.57% respectively.

Hindustan Copper has inaugurated a plant at Ghatsila in Jharkhand which would be the first facility in India to produce London Metal Exchange (LME) grade nickel from primary resource. The Singhbhum copper belt has unique ore characteristics which contained appreciable quantity of nickel. The company has installed and commissioned the technology to recover nickel.

At present, the capacity of the plant is 50 MT per annum considering the current production rate from the Surda mines. The nickel output is expected to increase eightfold after the completion of mine expansion projects undertaken at Ghatsila. The annual demand for pure Nickel in India is around 45,000 MT and at present its market is totally dependent on imports.

Hindustan Copper’s principal activities include mining of copper ore, concentration of copper ore into copper concentrate through a beneficiation process and also smelting, refining and extruding of the copper concentrate into refined copper in downstream saleable products.

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