Hunan Shuikoushan Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd.（SKS），is located at Songbai town, 40 km south to Hengyang City, Hunan province, is a large state-owned enterprises including non-ferrous metal mining, ore dressing, smelting, processing and trade. The company joined the Hunan Nonferrous Metals Holding Group Co., Ltd. in 2004，and joined the China Minmetals Corporation in 2009.
The company formerly known Shuikoushan Mining Bureau, was founded in 1896, now has 110 years of history. The late nineteenth century, " Reformation Movement, industry trend to save the country” thinking, gave birth to Shuikoushan Lead & Zinc Mining Agency, the first to open the National Western methods of mining, ore dressing and smelting of its kind, won the honor of the lead metropolis and "the cradle of China's lead & zinc industry “.
SKS has a glorious revolutionary tradition. In1922, the Shuikoushan Labor Movement led by Mao Zedong, Jiang Xianyun gained the victory. Song Qiaosheng, Geng Biao of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries stepped on revolution from Shuikoushan journey
Shuikoushan made an outstanding contribution to the development of China's defense. China's first atomic bomb, the first missile launch, the first artificial satellite to heaven, "Shenzhou" series manned spacecraft successful flight has the special materials with Shuikoushan provides. Many times Shuikoushan receives awards by CPC central committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission.
SHUIKOUSHAN has staff of 10,210. The SKS operates three mines (copper, lead, zinc)，the copper, the lead, the zinc, the zinc oxide, the rare metals and mercury-free zinc smelter each one. Among, its Kangjiawan mine is the largest lead, zinc and gold mine in Hunan Province. Its Baifang Copper mine is the only copper enterprise with mining, dressing and smelting process integrity in Hunan province. The SKS has such the production capacity of major products: mining and dressing capacity at 600,000 tons per year, smelting capacity at 200,000 tons per year, gold capacity at 1,000 kilograms per year, and silver capacity at 240 tons per year. Company’s indicators of production scale and sales income are the forefront among the Hunan province non-ferrous industry.
Company has total assets of 4.5 billion yuan, sales income will exceed 5.0 billion yuan in 2010."Twelfth Five-Year" period, the company will be striding toward the goal of billions Group.
