Adelaide · Australian copper → Asian smelters
PCA Trading structures annual copper offtake with mines and traders across Australia — term contracts scaling toward 60,000 tonnes a year — and supplies smelters and trading houses across Asia. We also buy spot parcels and tailings. Transparent LME-linked pricing, independent assay, and export managed end to end.
What we buy
Whether you’re a producing mine, a trader holding a parcel you control, or the owner of a legacy tailings dam — if it’s copper-bearing and the volume works, we’ll look at it.
01 / Concentrate
Cu 20 – 30%
Flotation concentrate from operating mines, or parcels aggregated through traders. We take ongoing annual offtake as well as spot shipments.
02 / Ore (DSO)
Cu 1 – 5%
Direct-shipping ore from established tenements, for producers without on-site beneficiation or traders consolidating parcels for export.
03 / Tailings
Cu 0.2 – 0.6%
Legacy tailings facilities, historical stockpiles, and process residues. Many older dams still hold commercially recoverable copper — we assess, sample, and purchase.
Capabilities
PCA Trading is built to be a straightforward partner for Australian copper: clear pricing, independent inspection, export handled for you, and settlement on the terms we agreed.
Offtake
Our focus is term supply — annual offtake agreements at scale. We also take spot parcels and tailings when the material is right.
Demand
We supply smelters and trading houses across Asia, so we can commit to volume firmly and settle on time.
Pricing
Offers are tied to the live LME copper price, less standard treatment, refining, and freight. Every deduction is itemised — no opaque discounts.
Inspection
Sampling and grading by SGS, CCIC, or Intertek, with joint sampling at site for ore and tailings. You see the same data we do.
Export
Haulage, port handling, documentation, customs, and chartering — managed in-house as exporter of record.
Settlement
Irrevocable LC or TT against documents, with provisional payment on assay and the balance on final weights and grade.
Specialist focus
Many Australian tailings facilities — particularly from operations that closed before modern flotation efficiencies — still hold commercially recoverable copper. Older dams commonly run 0.2–0.6% Cu, and whether that’s economic depends on volume, recovery, and location.
We assess historical and active tailings parcels end to end: on-site sampling, independent assay, hydrology and access review, and a clean purchase structure for the asset holder. If you hold a tailings resource and want to know what it’s worth, talk to us.
About PCA Trading
PCA Trading is an Adelaide-based commodities trader specialising in copper. We buy concentrate, ore, and tailings from producers and traders across Australia, and supply smelters and trading houses across Asia.
We’re a recently established firm, and our edge is execution: transparent LME-linked pricing, independent inspection on every parcel, export handled end to end, and settlement on the terms we agreed. We’d rather do fewer transactions properly than many of them carelessly.
If you produce or hold copper in Australia and want a reliable route to Asian smelters, we’d like to hear from you.
Sell us your material
Share your material details — location, type, and tonnage are enough to start. We’ll respond within two business days, usually with next steps for sampling.
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