Hanzhong Smelter owns three production lines with an annual zinc capacity of 360,000 tonnes. It was ordered to halt two lines last September following a round of stringent environmental inspections to build a waste disposal plant and properly deal with its tailings.
It brought back online half of its second production line on Tuesday April 9. It had originally planned to resume operation in May.
“The establishment of [Hanzhong’s] tailings...
