China Yuguang to Add Zinc, Copper Capacity

CHENGDU, China, July 1 -- China's Yuguang Gold and Lead <600531.SS> plans to expand its zinc capacity by half, start making copper and raise recycled lead production in the next five years, an executive at the country's top lead producer said.

"We are studying the expansion," Wang Yongjun, deputy general manager at Yuguang, told Reuters on the sidelines of a lead and zinc trade summit in Chengdu in the western province of Sichuan.