22 tellurium suppliers outside China across 10 countries, covering anode slime treatment, anode slime treatment at the Hamburg precious metals refinery, bismuth recovery and refining (planned), bismuth refining, bismuth-bearing lead alloy casting, by-product recovery, concentrate shipped to customers, converter-anode production, copper anode slime processing, copper concentrate and recycling smelting, copper concentrate smelting, copper electrorefining, copper telluride precipitation, copper-nickel concentrate smelting, electrorefining, gold and tellurium leaching at the Boliden Area concentrator/leaching plant, high-purity metal purification, high-purity tellurium and tellurium chemical/compound manufacture, integrated zinc/lead/copper smelting, intermediate shipped to 5N Plus Montreal for refining, lead smelting, lead-zinc smelting, precious and minor metal recovery, purify, recycle, recycling, refine, refining, smelt, technical selenium and tellurium recovery, tellurium metal and tellurium dioxide production, tellurium precipitation to concentrate, tellurium purification, tellurium recovery, tellurium recovery (USGS-listed tellurium refinery, tellurium recovery and refining, tellurium recovery circuit at the refinery, tellurium refining to 99.99% granules, tellurium refining to 99.99%+ shots and ingots, unit operations not published), zone-refine. Every record is sourced, dated and verified.
Every one of these 22 plants discloses a capacity figure. Registry re-checked 9 November 2026.
| Facility | Country | Mineral | Process | Capacity | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5N Plus Montreal (Garand Street) 5N Plus Inc. | Canada | gallium | refine, purify | Subscriber | MED |
| Vital Pure Metal Solutions Langelsheim (formerly PPM Pure Metals) Vital Pure Metal Solutions GmbH (formerly PPM Pure Metals GmbH) | Germany | gallium | refine, purify, zone-refine | Subscriber | MED |
| Umicore Hoboken (antimony recovery), Antwerp Umicore N.V. | Belgium | antimony | recycle, refine | Subscriber | HIGH |
| Korea Zinc Onsan Smelter (antimony recovery), Ulsan, South Korea Korea Zinc Co., Ltd. | South Korea | antimony | refine, recycle | Subscriber | MED |
| Kosaka Smelter & Refinery (antimony), Akita Kosaka Smelting and Refining Co., Ltd. | Japan | antimony | refine, smelt | 500 t/yr antimony (USGS) | HIGH |
| Uralelectromed Antimony Recovery, Verkhnyaya Pyshma Uralelectromed JSC | Russia | antimony | smelt, refine | Subscriber | MED |
| KCM — Plovdiv Lead-Zinc Smelter, Plovdiv, Bulgaria KCM A.D. (Holding KCM 2000) | Bulgaria | bismuth | lead-zinc smelting, by-product recovery, bismuth refining | Subscriber | HIGH |
| Crucible Metals (Korea Zinc) — Project Crucible, Clarksville, United States Crucible Metals LLC (Korea Zinc Co., Ltd.) | United States | bismuth | integrated zinc/lead/copper smelting, bismuth recovery and refining (planned) | Subscriber | HIGH |
| Uralelectromed (UMMC) — Non-Ferrous Metal Alloys Production, Verkh-Neyvinsky, Russia JSC Uralelectromed (UMMC) | Russia | bismuth | copper electrorefining, lead smelting, bismuth-bearing lead alloy casting | Subscriber | MED |
| JX Advanced Metals — Hitachi Works, Hitachi, Japan JX Advanced Metals Corporation | Japan | indium | high-purity metal purification, refining | Subscriber | MED |
| Nippon Rare Metal — Iwaki Plant, Iwaki, Japan Nippon Rare Metal, Inc. | Japan | indium | refining, high-purity metal purification, recycling | Subscriber | MED |
| Rio Tinto Kennecott — Tellurium Circuit, Bingham Canyon, Utah, USA Rio Tinto Kennecott | United States | tellurium | copper anode slime processing, tellurium recovery circuit at the refinery, copper telluride precipitation | Subscriber | HIGH |