Juiz de Fora
Smelter
Zinc
Principal Refined Products
Metallic zinc
Plant Capacity
96.9 ktpy
Ownership
100%
Location
Brazil
The Juiz de Fora smelter is located in the municipality of Juiz de Fora in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, wholly owned by Nexa Brazil, and is accessible by road.
Our Juiz de Fora smelter, which is wholly owned by Nexa Brazil, is located in Brazil and began operating in 1980. This smelter uses Roast-Leach-Electrowinning and Waelz Furnace technologies. With a nominal production capacity of 96.9 thousand tonnes per year, Juiz de Fora produced 84.2 thousand tonnes of zinc metal in 2022 and 81.1 thousand tonnes in 2021. In 2022, 31.4% the zinc raw material used in Juiz de Fora was zinc concentrate sourced from our mining operations, 48.9% was purchased from third parties and 19.8% was obtained from secondary feed materials from electric arc furnace (“EAF”) and brass oxide.
| 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production | kt | 84.2 | 81.1 | 79.4 |
| Zinc Recovery | % | 93.1 | 93.6 | 92.8 |
| Sales | kt | 83.7 | 80.8 | 78.6 |
| Conversion cost | US$/lb | 0.37 | 0.27 | 0.25 |
| Cash Cost, net of by-product credits | US$/t | 3,118.1 | 2,277.4 | 1,915.4 |
| Cash Cost, net of by-product credits | US$/lb | 1.41 | 1.03 | 0.87 |
| CAPEX | US$ mm | 22.4 | 19.0 | 9.8 |