Lihua Commences Production on New Copper Anode Smelters

Lihua International, Inc.

today announced that on June 1, 2012 the Company completed pre-heating and began producing copper anode on its two newly-constructed smelters. With these smelters on-line, Lihua has increased copper anode production capacity from 35,000 tons to 85,000 tons per year. Total refined copper production capacity has increased from 85,000 tons to 135,000 tons annually.