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Hindustan Zinc
Indian zinc-lead-silver miner and smelter (~75% owned by Vedanta Resources). Revenue ~₹35B (2024). Operates Dariba, Sindesar Khurd, and Rampura Agucha mines in Rajasthan — the largest integrated zinc complex in the world by mine output. Produces ~900K MT/yr zinc.
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Hindustan Zinc Chanderiya Smelter →
INChittorgarh, Rajasthan · manufacturing
Chanderiya is the world's largest single zinc smelting complex at ~675K MT/yr capacity. Two hydromet plants plus one pyrometallurgical plant. Feeds 99.99% SHG zinc to Indian galvanizing and die-casting industries.
Hindustan Zinc Dariba Smelter & Mine →
INDariba, Rajasthan · manufacturing
One of three Hindustan Zinc integrated mine-smelter complexes in Rajasthan. Rampura Agucha mine (nearby) is the world's largest zinc mine by output. Together, HZL's Rajasthan operations produce ~900K MT/yr zinc — the largest single-country integrated zinc complex outside China.
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Zinc Metal & Alloys
60%Lead Metal
15%Silver
20%Other Byproducts
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Did you know2024
Hindustan Zinc (75% owned by Vedanta Resources) operates the world's largest integrated zinc mining complex — Rampura Agucha mine + Chanderiya smelter in Rajasthan, India. The Indian government owns the remaining 29.5% and has repeatedly tried to sell its stake, triggering years of legal and political battles with Vedanta. A change of government ownership stake could disrupt management and investment at the world's largest zinc supply concentration outside China.
Hindustan Zinc Limited ↗Origin2023
Hindustan Zinc was established in 1966 as a state-owned enterprise under the Indian government's plan to develop domestic base metal mining. For decades it operated as a public sector unit (PSU) with government employment guarantees and limited efficiency incentives. In 2002, as part of India's Atal Bihari Vajpayee government's disinvestment program, the government sold a 26% stake to Sterlite Industries (Anil Agarwal's Vedanta group) and then another tranche to give Vedanta control. The privatization was highly contested: opposition parties, labor unions, and some shareholders argued the valuation was too low and that a strategic national asset was being handed to a private family at a discount. The government retained a ~29% stake and has continued blocking Vedanta's attempts to delist Hindustan Zinc from Indian exchanges, creating an ongoing governance stand-off between the world's largest integrated zinc producer's private majority owner and India's government minority shareholder.
Hindustan Zinc Limited ↗