Western Mining Co., Ltd. is a listed company in northwest China engaged in the mining, smelting, and trading of metal minerals, including copper, lead, zinc, iron, gold and silver.

[5] Its A shares were listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on 12 July 2007.

[6] In 2008, the company began trial production at a smelter at its Yulong (Chinese: 玉龙) copper mine in Tibet.

[8] Western Mining was a former constituent of SSE 50 Index (the blue chip of Shanghai Stock Exchange).

Western Mining Group itself is a subsidiary of Qinghai Provincial People's Government for 50.37% stake.