Port Pirie Smelter

Nyrstar
On 1 September 2007, a new star in the metal industry emerged – Nyrstar. Created from the zinc and lead smelting and alloying assets of Umicore and Zinifex, Nyrstar is today the world’s leading zinc producer and a leading lead producer.

Pronounced ‘Neer Star’, the name is derived from the Old Norse word ‘nyr’, meaning new, and the English word ‘star’, which evokes leadership qualities and is used as a mark of excellence or distinction.

Corporate Profile
On 1 September 2007, a new star in the metal industry emerged – Nyrstar. Our company is the world’s leading zinc producer and a major lead producer. It was created from the zinc and lead smelting and alloying operations of Australian zinc miner Zinifex and Belgium’s materials technology company Umicore.

Nyrstar’s operations span four continents and employ over 4,000 people. Annual production in 2006 on a pro forma basis was more than one million tonnes of zinc and zinc alloys, with significant production of lead and silver, as well. We also produce other valuable by-products, such as gold, indium and copper. We believe that our plants’ locations are well positioned to supply the largest and fastest growing zinc consuming markets in the world including China, the USA and Europe and to benefit from further growth in India, the Middle East and Russia. Nyrstar operates to high safety and environmental standards, continuing to build on the levels achieved by its parent companies, Umicore and Zinifex.

Key facts about Nyrstar:

• Formed through the combination of the Umicore zinc smelting and alloying operations and the Zinifex zinc and lead smelting and alloying operations on 31 August 2007.
• Smelting, refining and alloying operations in Australia, Belgium, China, France, the Netherlands, Thailand and the USA.
• Over 4,000 employees.
• A company that values safety, being open and honest, doing as we say, being considerate and working together.
• The world’s largest producer of zinc metal and alloys.
• A major producer of silver and lead.
• A producer of other valuable by-products, such as indium, copper and gold.
• A pro forma annual output in 2006 of over one million tonnes of zinc and zinc alloys, over 200,000 tonnes of lead and more than 13 million ounces of refined silver.

Port Pirie Smelter
The Port Pirie smelter is located on the eastern side of the Spencer Gulf in South Australia, approximately 200 kilometers north of Adelaide. Port Pirie is an integrated multi-metal smelter and refinery with flexibility to efficiently process a wide range of metals containing lead-dominant feedstock to produce refined lead, refined silver, zinc, copper and gold.