KGHM: first production at Sierra Gorda this month

Poland’s copper and silver mining giant KGHM expects the first volumes of copper concentrate to come out of its Sierra Gorda mine in Chile this July, the company’s CEO Herbert Wirth was quoted as saying by the Polish Press Agency. “Construction is completed. We are at the initial launch period,” Wirth told journalists on Thursday. “I am counting on the first concentrate this month and possibly also the first sale transaction.” The CEO added that KGHM will maintain the 2014 production goal for Sierra Gorda at 50,000 metric tons.