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Its principal products are copper (which often accounted for 50% of export earnings), cobalt and zinc. [16] Copper mines in which Gécamines has a major interest include Kambove, Kipushi and Kolwezi. Gécamines also owns a copper smelter at Lubumbashi and a hydrometallurgical plant at Shituru. [17]
Ivanhoe Mines is a Canadian mining company focused on advancing its three principal projects in Southern Africa: the development of new mines at the Kamoa-Kakula copper discoveries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Platreef palladium-platinum-nickel-copper-rhodium-gold discovery in South Africa, and the extensive redevelopment and upgrading of the historic Kipushi zinc-copper ...
In January 2001 the Kababancola Mining Company (KMC) was established as a copper and cobalt mining partnership for a 25-year term. [3] Tremalt, controlled by John Bredenkamp, held 80% of KMC while Gecamines held 20%. [4] KMC gained the rights to mines, facilities and concentrators at Kambove and Kakanda.
Gécamines began operations in the Kamoto underground mine in 1969. The mine produced three million tonnes of ore annually in the 1980s. Before it closed in October 1990 it had produced 59.3 million tonnes of ore, with a grade of 4.21% copper and 0.37% cobalt.
Gold-copper ore, concentrated and leached 16 (2018) [6] 16 Lisbon Valley San Juan County, Utah: Lisbon Valley Mining Company Copper ore, open pit, heap leached 10–15 (2018) [9] 17 Miami: Gila County, Arizona: Freeport-McMoRan: Copper ore, leached 5 (2021) [2] 18 Carlota Gila County, Arizona: KGHM Polska Miedź: Porphyry copper open pit ...
Tenke Fungurume Mining SARL was initially drilled around 1900 by Union Miniere, then by state owned Gecamines, then an Anglo American joint venture in the 70s, then Adolph Lundin in the 90s, then Phelps Dodge of the U.S, with a 57.75% share and the Congolese companies Tenke Mining Corp. (24.75% share) and Gécamines (17.5% share).
First Quantum obtained exploration licenses in January 2001 and July 2002. Production began in 2007, and in 2010 the mine yielded 322,700 tonnes of copper. [2] In August 2010 the DRC government seized Frontier, the largest copper mine in the country, saying First Quantum had been "unreasonable" in refusing to renegotiate the terms of the contract. [3]
The Mineral Park mine is a large open-pit copper mine located in the Cerbat Mountains, 14 mi (23 km) northwest of Kingman, Arizona (in the southwestern United States). A 2013 report said that Mineral Park has an estimated reserves of 389 million t (383 million long tons; 429 million short tons) of ore grading 0.14% copper and 31 million oz (1.9 ...