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Pogo All Weather Road Pogo Mine SUMITOMO METAL MINING 3
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JPY 100M JPY 100M SUMITOMO METAL MINING 5
Business operations focused on earnings maximization and cost minimization SUMITOMO METAL MINING 6
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08/1-2Q=100 SUMITOMO METAL MINING 8
JPY 100M Holding above 50% SUMITOMO METAL MINING 9
JCRRanking: Short-term:-1(highest level) Long-term:A+(top 30 SUMITOMO METAL MINING 10
Pogo Mine Pogo Mine SUMITOMO METAL MINING 11
Maintain and make full use of sound financial position SUMITOMO METAL MINING 12
Practical use as SMM s mining school to develop engineers SUMITOMO METAL MINING 13
Category Additional SMM staff Roles Additional SMM staff to serve as operators at Pogo (previously 4 SMM staff Pogo Pogo Mine SUMITOMO METAL MINING 14
Acquisition, in July 2009 of Teck s interest (40%) for $245M, bringing Japanese interest to 100% (SMM85%) First overseas mine with SMM serving as operator Pogo Cash operating cost (per toz 2009 : further reduction 2008 US$487 2007 US$499 Logo mark designed by a high school student in Pogo SUMITOMO METAL MINING 15
FY09 Significant reduction of production cost, Pursuit of rights to profitable copper mines SUMITOMO METAL MINING 16
(1) FY09CBNCNi refinery : smooth startup after expansion CBNC : production launch; Increase capacity from 10kt to 22kt (product: 17kt) Ni refinery: Increase capacity from 36kt to 41kt (product: 33.2kt) (2) Goro production launch by the end of 2009 (SMM forecast (3) Taganito:SMM announced on 14 Sep 2009 that SMM has reached a decision to proceed with Taganito project. Total investment US$1.3billion Launch of commercial production in 2013 Products Ni/Co mixed sulfide (Ni:30kt/y Co2.6kt/y) sell to SMM Production period Approx. 30yrs (4) 2013 Ni refinery: Increase capacity from 41kt to 65Kt SUMITOMO METAL MINING 17
HPAL+MCLE in nickel refining * Coral Bay Nickel Corp. (CBNC: Philippines): Production of nickel/cobalt mixed sulfide by HPAL * Domestic nickel refinery: Japan s only production of electrolytic nickel/cobalt from mixed sulfide, applying MCLE (matte chlorine leach electro winning) * Developments at CBNC Phase I: 2004: launch of production at 10,000 t/yr Phase II: 2009: operations stable (investments into production expansion: US$307mn) Capacity to be expanded to 22,000 t/yr HPAL: High Pressure Acid Leach: technology for recovering nickel and cobalt from low-grade laterite nickel ore First company to achieve large-scale commercial production CBNC Philippines * 2007: Received Grand Prize in Nikkei Manufacturing Awards * 2008: Received Watanabe Prize from Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan * 2009: Received Okochi Memorial Production Award SUMITOMO METAL MINING 18
Ore Slurry Sulfuric Acid, Vapors (Recovery) Vapors Heater Autoclave Flash Vessel Autoclave operating conditions temperature: 230250 Pressure: 35Mpa SUMITOMO METAL MINING 19
Only CBNC achieved planned production volume in short time HPAL plants at other companies either shut down or significantly undershot planned production volume. Cawse (Norilisk), Bulong (Preston): Plants closed. Ravensthorpe (BHP): Despite investment of US$2bn, plant closed almost immediately after production startup; buyer now being sought. Murrin Murrin (Anaconda): Operating at near 30,000 t/yr, against planned 45,000 t/yr Raventhrope SUMITOMO METAL MINING 20
SMM is Japan s only producer of electrolytic nickel. April 2009:production capacity increased from 36Kt to 41Kt Total investment 5.7bn (Production capacity to reach 65Kt in 2012; capital investment also including facility expansion) MCLE: matte chlorine leach electrowinning (Hydrometallurgy smelting method) Outstanding productivity, high quality achieved Reduction in environmental burden Improvement of work environment Nickel refinery won Okochi Memorial Production Award 1980: Cobalt separation by solvent extraction method 1996: Achievement of MCLE process Niihama Nickel Refinery Japan SUMITOMO METAL MINING 21
SMM announced on 14 Sep 2009 that SMM has reached a decision to proceed with Taganito project. Philippines Location: Taganito, northeast Mindanao Island,the Philippines Total investment US$1.3billion Launch of commercial production in 2013 Products Ni/Co mixed sulfide (Ni:30kt/y Co2.6kt/y) sell to SMM Production period Approx. 30yrs Coral Bay Taganito Planned Site SUMITOMO METAL MINING 22
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$/T 10,000 9,000 8,000 7,000 6,000 Curre nt LME Cas h & Stoc k His tric al Chart LME COMEX SHFE LME Cas h KT 2,000 1,800 1,600 1,400 1,200 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 00/1 00/7 01/1 01/7 02/1 02/7 03/1 03/7 04/1 04/7 05/1 05/7 06/1 06/7 07/1 07/7 08/1 08/7 09/1 09/7 1,000 SUMITOMO METAL MINING 25 800 600 400 200 0 (Source: SMM
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09 forecast: 6.78$/lb (Source: SMM SUMITOMO METAL MINING 27
Nickel Special/stainless steel, electronic materials, etc. SUMITOMO METAL MINING 28
Au $/Toz Oil $/barrel Fear of inflation Financial crisis Fear of inflation SUMITOMO METAL MINING 29
(SourceSMM Price trends of SMM s main metals: Cu Ni Au SUMITOMO METAL MINING 30
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