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The Mutanda Mine (French: Mine de Mutanda) is an open-pit copper and cobalt mine in the Lualaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is the largest cobalt mine in the world. Accidents and spills at the mine have killed workers and polluted nearby rivers and fields.
The Karakul deposit is one of the largest cobalt deposits in Russia. [1] The deposit is located in Altai Republic. [1] The deposit has reserves amounting to 180 million tonnes of ore grading 0.33% cobalt, 1.5% copper, 0.11% nickel and bismuth, 0.4% tungsten, 4.6 million oz of gold and 57.6 million oz of silver.
The rest of equity in the mine is held by the Korean State-owned Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation (KOMIR). [1] [5] Until 2020, when production was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Madagascar, the mine was producing 4,000 tonnes of refined cobalt and almost 40,000 tonnes of refined nickel every year.
Mutanda — the world's largest cobalt mine — was pegged to transition to care and maintenance (temporary closure) by year-end 2019, the world's largest and responsible for 20% global output. Artisanal mining of copper and cobalt, usually by hand, is also widespread.
Congo is by far the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a mineral used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other products, and it is also Africa’s top producer of copper ...
Tenke Fungurume Mining SA is also home to one of the world's largest known copper and cobalt deposits, and is the largest copper producer in the DRC. Through the production of copper cathode and cobalt hydroxide, TFM provides metals crucial to the transportation, communications, construction, computers, medical science and many emerging ...
The mine near Salmon is within the Idaho Cobalt Belt, which contains some of the largest cobalt deposits in the U.S. If it starts production, the mine would be the only primary cobalt mine in the ...
The Kamoto Mine (French: La mine de Kamoto) is an underground copper and cobalt mine to the west of Musonoi in the former Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] As of 2022, the site is the largest active cobalt mine in the world. [3] The mine includes the Luilu metallurgical plant, which accepts ore from KOV mine and Mashamba ...