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08:00

08:00 - 09:00

60 Minutes

Registration

09:00 - 10:00

60 Minutes

Keynote session – Spotlight on mining exploration and investments

  • Exploring how smelting, mining and recycling are being transformed into strategic assets in national critical minerals strategies 
  • Is acquirable mine supply drying up?
  • Case study – successfully bringing Tier 1 assets to market in the current environment
  • Exploring the role of Chinese CAPEX in future supply

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10:00

10:00 - 10:30

30 Minutes

Keynote presentation: The African Copper Belt – The New Frontier for Asian Investors?

10:30

10:30 - 11:00

30 Minutes

Networking break

11:00

11:00 - 12:00

60 Minutes

Session 1: Smelter Pressures & Strategies

  • How are low TC/RCs transforming smelter economics
  • What are the implications of China’s MIIT requiring mining equity ownership for new smelters?
  • Feedstock strategies - What are the technological limitations of scrap as % of overall feed, what developments have been made on complex and low grade concentrates use?
  • Will current market conditions create a longer term shift in the balance of power between miners and smelters? What will the impact of long term impacts on mine supply?

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12:00

12:00 - 12:30

30 Minutes

Highlight presentation: From Feedstock to Foothold: Copper Smelting’s Strategic Evolution

  • The historical role of smelting as a support to mining
  • How new industrial policy and green-tech integration are redefining value
  • Can you control value without owning the ore? -Is value creation from traditional resource ownership?

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14:00

14:00 - 14:30

30 Minutes

Fireside Chat: Energy Traders Enter the Copper Game – Disruptors or Stabilizers?

  • How do powerful energy traders affect concentrate marketing and smelter margins?
  • Are trading houses the new industrial backers?

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14:30

14:30 - 15:00

30 Minutes

Copper’s Climate Conundrum – Can We Transition in Time?

  • Does current copper supply make 2°C goals unachievable?
  • If so, what does that mean for:
  • The green transition
    Copper substitution

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15:00

15:00 - 15:30

30 Minutes

Networking break

15:30

15:30 - 16:15

45 Minutes

Discussion with Minmetals & CRU :Copper’s Future

  • Correlation between China and World Copper Industry in the future
  • Outlook in Copper in the next 5 years
  • What are the key issues in the copper industry in the future
  • China’s role in future in Copper supply

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16:15

16:15 - 17:00

45 Minutes

Technology in Copper Session

  • Development of copper copper mines in high altitude areas
  • Improvement of screening technology for high viscosity and difficult to select materials
  • Low grade mines feed the gap by new methods
  • AI and UT in chain of copper industry really drive the industry to a new stage

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16:30

16:30 - 16:30

0 Minutes

Close of day one

18:30

18:30 - 20:30

120 Minutes

World Copper Asia Conference Dinner

09:00

09:00 - 09:30

30 Minutes

Fireside chat – Financing the future, the role of Chinese capital in future supply

09:30

09:30 - 10:30

60 Minutes

Panel 4: Scrap, Recycling & the Rise of Secondary Feed

  • Are smelters investing in tech to shift power from miners?
  • Who is pushing the limits of scrap in smelter feedstock and other smelting innovations
  • How do national scrap mandates (Japan, Korea, China) shape the market?
  • Will CRRG (China’s new recycling entity) help close the scrap gap?

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10:30

10:30 - 11:00

30 Minutes

Networking break

11:00

11:00 - 12:00

60 Minutes

Market outlook – Examining prices and premiums

  • Are today’s supply constraints putting climate goals at risk?
  • What does copper substitution look like at scale?
  • Is the green premium becoming reality?
  • Examining SHFE and LME price projections

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12:00

12:00 - 13:00

60 Minutes

ESG in copper

12:30

12:30 - 14:00

90 Minutes

Networking Lunch

13:00

13:00 - 14:00

60 Minutes

Close of day two and conference ends

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