Korea Zinc (KRX: 010130) is another zinc player ("Total non-ferrous metal smelting company") BUT there is a family and P/E soup opera or fight for control of them that's ongoing - Douglas Research Insights Substack has been covering that... 640,000+ tons of zinc or zinc products a year - not sure where they get the zinc from or if that makes them a big player compared to Glencore etc: https://www.koreazinc.co.kr/en/?pageName=product/index&mainMenuId=kz-product-en&subMenuId=kz-product-index-en
Here is a decent list of the largest Zinc producers in the world. Its a difficult market to find good data on, I had a hard time researching the zinc market...so the list might not be perfectly correct:
I linked to your post for my Monday emerging markets links roundup: https://emergingmarketskeptic.substack.com/p/emerging-markets-week-september-30-2024
Korea Zinc (KRX: 010130) is another zinc player ("Total non-ferrous metal smelting company") BUT there is a family and P/E soup opera or fight for control of them that's ongoing - Douglas Research Insights Substack has been covering that... 640,000+ tons of zinc or zinc products a year - not sure where they get the zinc from or if that makes them a big player compared to Glencore etc: https://www.koreazinc.co.kr/en/?pageName=product/index&mainMenuId=kz-product-en&subMenuId=kz-product-index-en
Thanks for adding me to the roundup!
Here is a decent list of the largest Zinc producers in the world. Its a difficult market to find good data on, I had a hard time researching the zinc market...so the list might not be perfectly correct:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/607182/refined-zinc-production-of-the-leading-zinc-producers-worldwide/