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April 2 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - REPORTS RECORD QUARTERLY MINED METAL PRODUCTION OF 315 KT IN 4QFY26

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - Q4 SILVER PRODUCTION AT 176 METRIC TONNES, UP 11% QOQ

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - REPORTS RECORD QUARTERLY REFINED METAL PRODUCTION OF 282 KT IN 4QFY26, UP 5%

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April 1 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• POWER MECH PROJECTS LTD - SECURES ORDER WORTH 1.09 BILLION RUPEES FROM HINDUSTAN ZINC LIMITED

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March 23 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• HINDUSTAN ZINC- HINDUSTAN ZINC AND TATA STEEL PARTNER TO SCALE LOW-CARBON ZINC SOLUTIONS WITH ECOZEN

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March 10 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - PARTNERS WITH CMR GREEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR ZINC ALLOY MANUFACTURING IN RAJASTHAN

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March 9 (Reuters) - South West Pinnacle Exploration Ltd SWPI.NS:

• SOUTH WEST PINNACLE EXPLORATION LTD - SIGNS LONG TERM EXPLORATION SERVICES CONTRACT VALUED OVER 3.07 BILLION RUPEES

• SOUTH WEST PINNACLE EXPLORATION- SIGNS LONG TERM EXPLORATION SERVICES CONTRACT FROM HIND METAL EXPLORATION

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March 5 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• SIGNS MOU WITH VIRGINIA TECH FOR ADVANCED SILVER RECOVERY RESEARCH

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Feb 23 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• SIGNS MOU WITH TRIPURA GROUP FOR ZINC PARK

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Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - DEVELOPS ZINC-ION BATTERY PROTOTYPES FOR ENERGY STORAGE

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MUMBAI, Jan 30 (Reuters) - India's Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS plans to raise up to 14 billion rupees ($152.34 million) through the sale of separately transferable redeemable principal part (STRPPs) bonds maturing in two and three years, three bankers said on Friday.

It will pay an annual coupon of 7.15% and has invited commitment bids for the issue later in the day, they said.

The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters email seeking comment.

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* Size includes base plus greenshoe for some issues

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** Shares of Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS down 1.3% at 717.6 rupees

** Co's parent company Vedanta VDAN.NS said it will sell up to a 1.59% stake in co

** Stake sale worth about 45.9 billion rupees ($500.9 million) based on Reuters calculations

** Vedanta will sell the shares at a floor price of 685 rupees, it said in an exchange filing, representing a 5.8% discount to Tuesday's closing price of 727.20 rupees

** Vedanta has sold portions of its stake in Hindustan Zinc twice in the past two years to help shore up its balance sheet

** Stock rated as "hold" on average by 14 analysts; median PT at 588 rupees, as per data compiled by LSEG

** HZNC rose nearly 38% in 2025

($1 = 91.6300 Indian rupees)

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Jan 27 (Reuters) - Vedanta Ltd VDAN.NS:

• APPROVED THE SALE OF 1.59% STAKE IN HINDUSTAN ZINC

• APPROVED SALE OF SHARES OF HINDUSTAN ZINC REPRESENTING 1.59% EQUITY SHARE CAPITAL VIA OFFER FOR SALE

• APPROVED SALE OF UPTO 67 MILLION EQUITY SHARES OF HINDUSTAN ZINC LIMITED

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Jan 23 (Reuters) - CIMIC Group:

• SAID ON THURSDAY, SEDGMAN AND LEIGHTON ASIA WIN SEPARATE CONTRACTS FOR ZINC TAILINGS RECYCLING IN INDIA

• SEDGMAN TO PROVIDE ENGINEERING SERVICES AND OFFSHORE EQUIPMENT PROCUREMENT

• LEIGHTON ASIA TO MANAGE CONSTRUCTION AND ONSHORE PROCUREMENT

• CONTRACTS TO GENERATE ABOUT A$400 MILLION FOR CIMIC

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Jan 20 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• TO CONSIDER RAISING OF FUNDS THROUGH THE ISSUE OF NON-CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES

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Jan 19 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS Exec:

• OUTLOOK FOR SILVER REMAINS BULLISH

• CONFIDENT OF Q4 BEING A STRONG ONE, OF MEETING OUTLOOKS ESPECIALLY FOR SILVER

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Jan 2 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - Q3 MINED METAL PRODUCTION UP 4% Y/Y

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - Q3 SILVER PRODUCTION DOWN 1% Y/Y

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** Shares of Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS, India's largest silver producer, jump 2.5% to 581.8 rupees, highest since August 14, 2024

** HZNC biggest pct gainer on the Nifty Metal index .NIFTYMET, which is up 0.35%

** Silver XAG= continues its record-breaking run to $65.9900/ounce

** Stock rated "hold" on avg; median PT is 471.5 rupees

** YTD, HZNC jumps 31.8%, outperforming a 21.4% rise in NIFTYMET

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** India's Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS up 3%, parent Vedanta VDAN.NS rises 2%, leading metal index .NIFTYMET ~1% higher

** VDAN set for fourth straight session of gains; HZNC set for three-session gaining streak

** Gains in line with silver XAG=, which continues its record-breaking run

** Broader metal prices also firm due to a weakening U.S. dollar after U.S. Fed rate cut

** YTD, VDAN up 20.4%, HZNC up 18.8%; metal index up 18.4%

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** Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS, parent Vedanta VDAN.NS rise 4.3% to 514 rupees and 1.4% to 523 rupees, respectively, leading metal index .NIFTYMET 0.9% higher

** Silver XAG= continues its record-breaking run to $61.4584/ounce

** ICICI Direct Research says rise in silver prices will directly benefit India's largest silver producer Hindustan Zinc

** Vedanta rated "buy" on avg; median PT is 563.5 rupees, per data compiled by LSEG

** Hindustan Zinc rated "hold" on avg; median PT is 466 rupees

** YTD, VDAN, HZNC rises 18%, 15.4%, respectively vs NIFTYMET's 18% climb

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Oct 17 (Reuters) - India's Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS reported a nearly 14% rise in second-quarter profit on Friday, helped by higher commodity prices of zinc and silver and as domestic demand remained resilient.

Consolidated net profit for India's top refined zinc producer stood at 26.49 billion rupees (about $301 million) for the quarter ended September 30, higher than 23.27 billion rupees profit a year ago.

($1 = 87.9300 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Manvi Pant; Editing by Janane Venkatraman)

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By Andy Home

LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The world is going to need a lot of copper and other critical metals if it is going to pivot away from fossil fuels. But can the mining industry deliver?

The challenges are huge. Ore grades at existing copper mines are steadily falling, big new discoveries are becoming rarer and development times can stretch up to a decade.

Part of the solution is to increase the efficiency of the mining process, which has historically been both highly polluting and wasteful.

BACK TO THE FUTURE

The world dug up 650 million metric tons of copper between 1910 and 2010 but 100 million tons never made it to market, according to a 2020 research paper by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute.

All that metal is still there lying in tailings ponds, a potentially massive resource awaiting the right technology to unlock it.

Rio Tinto RIO.L has already successfully separated critical metals such as scandium and tellurium from waste streams at existing operations.

Others are now looking at ways to extract value from the vast legacy of past mining activity.

Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO, for example, is evaluating the potential for re-mining tailings at the Flin Flon site in Canada's Manitoba. The mine closed in 2022, leaving nearly a century's worth of minerals-rich waste.

Australia's Cobalt Blue Holdings COB.AX, which has been collaborating on the Flin Flon project, has also signed an agreement with the Mount Isa city council in Queensland to explore re-working pyrite tailings as a potential alternative source of sulphur once the town's copper smelter closes.

These and many similar projects are still only at conceptual or pilot stage but India's Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS is scaling up with a $438 million commitment to process 10 million tons per year of tailings at its Rampura Agucha mine, the world's largest zinc mine.

LESS WASTE

While miners are collectively reassessing the value of legacy waste, they are also working out how to produce less waste in the first place.

This comes with both economic and environmental upside. The mining industry currently generates over seven billion tons of tailings per year and the amount is rising as ore grades fall.

Much of the work in this area is incremental in nature. Glencore Technology, for example, has been steadily improving its ISAMill grinder to handle increasingly coarser particle sizes. The aim is to reduce the amount of ore grinding to save water and reduce tailings waste.

The company's Albion Process for leaching can lift copper recovery rates to over 99% and reduce operating costs by up to a third, allowing development of complex ore-bodies that wouldn't be viable with traditional technologies.

Others such as Allonnia, which describes itself as a bio-ingenuity company, are pioneering more revolutionary approaches.

The company's D-Solve technology uses microbes to selectively extract impurities such as magnesium from concentrates.

Allonnia has just partnered with the Eagle nickel mine in the United States for an onsite unit to pilot technology that in laboratory tests can improve nickel grades by 18% and cut magnesium impurities by 40%.

BIG TECH MEETS OLD TECH

The new overarching technology that can bind all these innovations together is artificial intelligence (AI).

Majors such as Rio Tinto and BHP are already using AI in autonomous haulage systems and to predict maintenance downtime rather than reacting to equipment failures.

Generative AI is the next big leap forward. BHP BHP.AX uses it in combination with "digital twin" technology, a real-time virtual replica of the mining process, at its South Australian copper mine and the giant Escondida mine in Chile.

GenAI models at Escondida "inform ore blasting and blending strategies, identify mine areas with challenging ore characteristics, and support the implementation of SAG mill model predictive control," according to BHP.

U.S. copper producer Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N has partnered with consultancy group McKinsey to use AI to boost production at its North American operations, which were facing declining output due to mature mines and aging process technology.

Integrating traditional mining with data engineering allows for real-time adjustments to processing rates to handle variable ores. When AI was trialled at the Baghdad mine in Arizona, it led to a 5%-10% increase in copper production.

Rolling it out across the company's other American operations is projected to lift output by 90,000 tons each year.

That's equivalent to a new processing plant, which would come at a cost of over $1.5 billion and a timeline of eight to ten years for planning, construction and commissioning.

FUTURE MINING

Mining, it is often said, is a dirty business.

The proof lies in the billions of tons of sludge sitting in tailings ponds around the world. The consequence is public antipathy to new mine projects, which is one of the reasons it takes so long to build and commission a new one.

Mining has also been a highly inefficient business in the past. Too much mineral value has been either discarded as waste or simply left in the ground because the technology didn't exist to treat such low-grade ore.

That's changing as one of the world's oldest industries rapidly modernizes, combining innovations in traditional processing with new technologies such as bio-engineering and AI.

This is a quiet revolution playing out in multiple laboratories, pilot plants and data centres around the world.

But the promise is one of a much cleaner and more efficient sector, which may just mean the world isn't going to run out of copper after all.

The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.

(Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)

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** Shares of Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS rise as much as 1.6%

** Stock trimmed most gains to trade flat at 427.10 rupees in a broadly flat market .BO

** Miner will spend 38.23 billion rupees ($437.5 million) to set up a metals re-processing plant

** The plant with a capacity of 10 million tons per year, will recover metal from tailing dumps — waste piles left after ore processing

** Eleven analysts covering HZNC have a "hold" rating on average; median PT is 462 rupees, per LSEG data

** Stock down 3.8% YTD

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Adds background on company's expansion plans

Aug 18 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS will spend 38.23 billion rupees ($437.5 million) to set up a metals reprocessing plant, the Indian miner said on Monday, as a part of its plans to ramp-up capacity.

The new plant, with a processing capacity of 10 million tons per annum, will recover metal from tailing dumps - a phrase used to refer to the piles of waste left behind after the metal is extracted from ores.

The factory will boost the company's overall mineral recovery, Hindustan Zinc added in its statement, helping its larger aim of doubling its annual capacity to 2 million tons.

In June, Hindustan Zinc announced investment plans of $1.39 billion to set up a metals complex in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, where it already operates a zinc smelter.

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Aug 4 (Reuters) - India's GreenLine Mobility Solutions said on Monday it will invest 4 billion rupees ($45.7 million) to boost its electric truck supply fleet for miner Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS, replacing diesel vehicles.

Hindustan Zinc, which has set a 2050 net-zero carbon emission goal, will deploy electric trucks for the movement of materials between its mines and smelters, GreenLine said in a statement.

The funds will also be used to set up a commercial-scale battery-swapping infrastructure and double Hindustan Zinc's liquefied natural gas-powered truck fleet to 200 for long-haul finished goods transport, GreenLine said.

The company had in April pledged $275 million to accelerate decarbonization of heavy trucks, in a move to cut logistics-related emissions.

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Aug 1 (Reuters) - Larsen and Toubro Ltd LART.NS:

• GOT ORDER WORTH BETWEEN 25-50 BILLION RUPEES

• SECURES CONTRACT FOR MINERALS AND METALS BUSINESS

• SECURES ORDER FROM HINDUSTAN ZINC

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July 16 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• GETS LETTER OF INTENT FROM GOVERNMENT

• PREFERRED BIDDER FOR COMPOSITE LICENSE FOR JHANDAWALI – SATIPURA AMALGAMATED POTASH, HALITE BLOCK OF RAJASTHAN

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** Shares of Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS climb 2.5% to 435.7 rupees, their highest level in more than a month

** Spot silver XAG= up 1.8% to hit a record high earlier in the day PREMTL

** Silver metal operations contribute ~19% to HZNC's March-quarter revenue

** Stock down ~2% so far in 2025

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Updates with Vedanta Group response in paragraph 2, share move in paragraph 7, analyst comment in paragraph 8 and details throughout

By Vivek Kumar M and Sethuraman N R

July 9 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Viceroy Research has taken a short position against the debt of Vedanta Resources, the UK-based parent of Indian miner Vedanta VDAN.NS, alleging that the British firm is "systematically draining" its Indian unit.

A spokesperson for the Vedanta Group said that the report was "a malicious combination of selective misinformation and baseless allegations" and that its authors issued it without contacting the group.

Vedanta plans to split into multiple separate entities and said in 2024 it aims to cut its debt pile by $3 billion in three years. Group Chairman Anil Agarwal launched a plan a year earlier to overhaul the business after an unsuccessful attempt to take Vedanta private in 2020.

The group's structure is "financially unsustainable" and a major risk to creditors, Viceroy Research said, adding that it had uncovered material discrepancies in its investigation.

Vedanta's dividend policy serves its parent's financing needs, not its own cash flow, Viceroy Research said, adding that billions in disputed expenses are hidden off its balance sheet.

Vedanta approved dividends worth 758 billion rupees ($8.8 billion) in the last four fiscal years, while its unit Hindustan Zinc HZNC.NS declared 573 billion rupees as dividends over the same period, exchange filings show. Vedanta Resources holds 56.38% in Vedanta and 61.62% in Hindustan Zinc.

Shares of the Indian miner fell up to 7.8% after the report, but pared losses to trade down 4.8% by 0723 GMT while Hindustan Zinc was down 5%.

Viceroy's report "largely reiterates known concerns" without offering new insights, which likely explains the stock's quick partial recovery, said UR Bhat, co-founder of investment platform Alphaniti Fintech.

"The key now is whether institutional investors are influenced by it," he said.

Vedanta Resources' net debt on a standalone basis stood at $4.9 billion as of March 31, 2025, according to its annual report.

"We remain focused on the business and growth, and request everyone to avoid speculation and unsubstantiated allegations," the Vedanta Group spokesperson said in their response.

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July 8 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• GETS ORDER FROM OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOM IMPOSING PENALTY OF 1.3 MILLION RUPEES

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July 4 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - GETS LETTER OF INTENT IN FAVOR OF PREFERRED BIDDER

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - UTTAR PRADESH ISSUED LETTER OF INTENT TO HINDUSTAN ZINC

• HINDUSTAN ZINC - PREFERRED BIDDER FOR GRANT OF COMPOSITE LICENSE FOR E-AUCTION OF NAWATOLA-LABAND REE BLOCK

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July 2 (Reuters) - Hindustan Zinc Ltd HZNC.NS:

• HINDUSTAN ZINC LTD - REFINED METAL PRODUCTION AT 250 KT, DOWN 5% YOY

• HINDUSTAN ZINC LTD - SALEABLE SILVER PRODUCTION AT 149 METRIC TONNES, DOWN 11% YOY

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