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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 ...
Copper mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are concentrated in the Copperbelt, in the provinces of Haut-Katanga and Lualaba, both part of the historical province of Katanga until 2015. The ownership of most mines is structured as a joint venture split between a foreign company and the DRC state-controlled miners Gécamines and ...
Part of the electricity generated here is used by Ivanhoe Mines in its Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine, an estimated 250 kilometres (155 mi), southwest of the Mwadingusha HPP. [2] The balance of the power is taken up by SNEL and integrated into the national electricity grid. [1]
That complex was developed in large part thanks to Canada's Ivanhoe Mines and China's Zijin Mining Group. Ivanhoe reports Kamoa-Kakula produced 393,551 tonnes of concentrated copper in 2023 and is ...
This will provide 162 megawatts to be consumed by the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine, near the city of Kolwezi, in Lualaba Province, in the south of DRC. The work will include the rehabilitation of the Inga–Kolwezi High Voltage Transmission Line. [30]
This list of copper mines includes operating, ... Kamoa-Kakuila mine; Kamoto Mine; Kamoya Central; Kamoya South; Kananga mine; Kapulo mine; Kinsenda mine; Kinsevere mine;
Ivanhoe also is exploring for new copper discoveries on its wholly owned Western Foreland exploration licences in the DRC, near the Kamoa-Kakula Project. The current Ivanhoe Mines was launched in 1993 as African Minerals to pursue mineral interests in Southern Africa. It was renamed Ivanplats Limited in 2011, and then Ivanhoe Mines in 2013 ...
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).