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KGHM Polska Miedź (KGH) — threat to the moat

86% of the group's non-current assets are Polish, and one smelter refines most of the copper.

The integration that makes the Polish operation efficient also makes it undiversified to a degree few large miners would accept.

Non-current assets by country (zl m)Poland — 86%Canada — 7%United States — 6%Chile — 1%Chile looks tiny because Sierra Gorda is equity-accounted, not consolidated
A regional event reaches 86% of the asset base at once, and one smelter refines most of the copper.

Three mines, three metallurgical plants, the concentrator and the tailings facility sit in a single voivodeship1, and 30 690 million złoty of the group's 35 713 million of non-current assets are in Poland2. A regional power failure, a labour dispute, a water or tailings incident, or a change in Polish mining law reaches all of it at once.

The smelter is the sharpest version of the risk because it is a single point through which nearly everything passes. When Glogow I went down for maintenance in the third quarter of 2026, KGHM had to build anode copper inventory ahead of the shutdown3 — a planned interruption, handled, and a demonstration of what an unplanned one would do.

The international assets are not much of an offset. KGHM INTERNATIONAL contributed 3 439 million złoty of revenue in 2025 against the parent's 30 9644, and Sierra Gorda contributes no revenue at all because it is equity-accounted.

The counterweight the group has built is financial rather than geographic. At 30 June 2026 it held open credit lines, loans and bonds with a total available equivalent of 16 978 million złoty5 against net debt of 4 691 million6 - enough liquidity to absorb an interruption without being forced to sell anything.

The measure is not a probability, which nobody can give you honestly, but the concentration itself: the share of group non-current assets outside Poland, which is 14%7, and which the strategy proposes to raise only selectively.

References
  1. ReportedThree mines, three metallurgical plants, the concentrator and the tailings facility sit in a single voivodeship, and 30 690 million złoty of the group's 35 713 million of non-current assets are in Poland.
    KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. Group consolidated financial statements for 2025 (group revenue of 36 366m złoty with the parent at 30 964m and KGHM INTERNATIONAL at 3 439m; parent copper revenue of 22 378m and silver revenue of 6 133m; minerals extraction tax of 4 693m against 3 865m in 2024 and 3 496m in 2023; employee benefits of 6 303m; purchased metal-bearing materials of 8 335m; parent net profit of 1 946m against a group profit of 3 688m; total assets of 58 240m, equity of 32 898m and involvement in the Sierra Gorda joint venture of 10 250m including 8 436m of loans) — FY2023-FY2025 · publ. 10 March 2026 · source ↗
  2. ReportedThree mines, three metallurgical plants, the concentrator and the tailings facility sit in a single voivodeship, and 30 690 million złoty of the group's 35 713 million of non-current assets are in Poland.
    KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. Group consolidated financial statements for 2025 (group revenue of 36 366m złoty with the parent at 30 964m and KGHM INTERNATIONAL at 3 439m; parent copper revenue of 22 378m and silver revenue of 6 133m; minerals extraction tax of 4 693m against 3 865m in 2024 and 3 496m in 2023; employee benefits of 6 303m; purchased metal-bearing materials of 8 335m; parent net profit of 1 946m against a group profit of 3 688m; total assets of 58 240m, equity of 32 898m and involvement in the Sierra Gorda joint venture of 10 250m including 8 436m of loans) — FY2023-FY2025 · publ. 10 March 2026 · source ↗
  3. ReportedWhen Glogow I went down for maintenance in the third quarter of 2026, KGHM had to build anode copper inventory ahead of the shutdown — a planned interruption, handled, and a demonstration of what an unplanned one would do.
    KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. Group - Management Board's report on activities in 2025, the production and unit-cost record (electrolytic copper of 570,9 thousand tonnes against 588,7 in 2024, 592,4 in 2023 and 560,4 in 2020; metallic silver of 1 323 tonnes against 1 403 in 2023; C1 payable copper production cost of 3,16 USD/lb for the Polish assets against 1,03 for KGHM INTERNATIONAL and 0,86 for Sierra Gorda; group payable copper of 710,0 thousand tonnes against 753,7 in 2021; wire rod and wire production of 279,9 thousand tonnes; and world mined silver production of about 25,3 thousand tonnes) — FY2018-FY2025 · publ. 10 March 2026 · source ↗
  4. ReportedKGHM INTERNATIONAL contributed 3 439 million złoty of revenue in 2025 against the parent's 30,964, and Sierra Gorda contributes no revenue at all because it is equity-accounted.
    KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. Group consolidated financial statements for 2025 (group revenue of 36 366m złoty with the parent at 30 964m and KGHM INTERNATIONAL at 3 439m; parent copper revenue of 22 378m and silver revenue of 6 133m; minerals extraction tax of 4 693m against 3 865m in 2024 and 3 496m in 2023; employee benefits of 6 303m; purchased metal-bearing materials of 8 335m; parent net profit of 1 946m against a group profit of 3 688m; total assets of 58 240m, equity of 32 898m and involvement in the Sierra Gorda joint venture of 10 250m including 8 436m of loans) — FY2023-FY2025 · publ. 10 March 2026 · source ↗
  5. ReportedAt 30 June 2026 it held open credit lines, loans and bonds with a total available equivalent of 16 978 million złoty against net debt of 4 691 million - enough liquidity to absorb an interruption without being forced to sell anything.
    KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. Group - Management Board's report on activities in the first half of 2026, financial results (revenue of 24 711m złoty up 40,8%, profit for the period of 5 579m against 580m, adjusted EBITDA of 9 198m up 89,1%, capital expenditure of 1 663m, net debt down 13,5% to 4 691m, equity of 39 814m, available financing of 16 978m, and the 1 979m złoty increase in the minerals extraction tax on higher copper and silver prices) — H1 2026 · publ. August 2026 · source ↗
  6. ReportedAt 30 June 2026 it held open credit lines, loans and bonds with a total available equivalent of 16 978 million złoty against net debt of 4 691 million - enough liquidity to absorb an interruption without being forced to sell anything.
    KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. Group - Management Board's report on activities in the first half of 2026, financial results (revenue of 24 711m złoty up 40,8%, profit for the period of 5 579m against 580m, adjusted EBITDA of 9 198m up 89,1%, capital expenditure of 1 663m, net debt down 13,5% to 4 691m, equity of 39 814m, available financing of 16 978m, and the 1 979m złoty increase in the minerals extraction tax on higher copper and silver prices) — H1 2026 · publ. August 2026 · source ↗
  7. ReportedThe measure is not a probability, which nobody can give you honestly, but the concentration itself: the share of group non-current assets outside Poland, which is 14%, and which the strategy proposes to raise only selectively.
    KGHM Polska Miedz S.A. Group consolidated financial statements for 2025 (group revenue of 36 366m złoty with the parent at 30 964m and KGHM INTERNATIONAL at 3 439m; parent copper revenue of 22 378m and silver revenue of 6 133m; minerals extraction tax of 4 693m against 3 865m in 2024 and 3 496m in 2023; employee benefits of 6 303m; purchased metal-bearing materials of 8 335m; parent net profit of 1 946m against a group profit of 3 688m; total assets of 58 240m, equity of 32 898m and involvement in the Sierra Gorda joint venture of 10 250m including 8 436m of loans) — FY2023-FY2025 · publ. 10 March 2026 · source ↗
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