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Central African Copper Belt geologic map of Katanga Supergroup and mine locations. The Copperbelt (French: ceinture du cuivre) is a natural region in Central Africa which sits on the border region between northern Zambia and the south eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It is known for copper mining.
Copperbelt Province is a province in Zambia which covers the mineral-rich Copperbelt, and farming and bush areas to the south.It was the backbone of the Northern Rhodesian economy during British colonial rule and fuelled the hopes of the immediate post-independence period, but its economic importance was severely damaged by a crash in global copper prices in 1973.
English: Member states of the Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries (CIPEC). Four founding members (Chile, Peru, Republic of Zaire, Zambia.) Four additional members added in 1975 (Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Yougoslavia.)
Copper is one of the world's most important industrial minerals, and Africa is an important world producer. While output is traditionally dominated by Zambia, South Africa and Katanga Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many African nations contribute to copper production, and many African nations have undeveloped ore resources.
Molten copper being poured at Mopani Copper Mine's Mufulira Mine in Zambia, once the largest in Africa. The Lufilian Arc contains the 520 kilometres (320 mi) African copperbelt, which runs in a northwesterly direction from Zambia into the Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The copper deposits are found in the older ...
To skip the detailed analysis of the copper industry, go directly to the Top 5 Copper Producing Countries in The World. Copper is one of the most commonly used and important metals in the world.
Production trends in the top five copper-producing countries, 1950-2012. This is a list of countries by mined copper production. Copper ore can be exported to be smelted so that a nation's smelter production of copper can differ greatly from its mined production. See: List of countries by copper smelter production.
The miners were digging for copper ore at the Seseli open-pit mine in the copper-belt city of Chingola, around 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital, Lusaka, according to police.