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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.
Today, mine worker exploitation is still prevalent and instances of slave labor, and especially child labor, are still observed in the mining industry according to the 2014 U.S. Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor.
The Nkana Copper Refinery produces electrolytically refined copper in the form of cathodes. [22] The copper meets the LME premium quality grade. [22] The tankhouse has a capacity of about 180,000 tons of finished copper per annum. [22] It has been expanded to accommodate the increased anode production from the Nchanga smelter. [28]
The Zambian Mopani Copper Mines produce the majority of the country’s copper and are the most significant copper deposit in Africa, producing approximately 88,000 metric tonnes of copper in 2021.
The mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: Industrie minière de la République Démocratique du Congo) produces copper, diamonds, tantalum, tin, gold, and more than 70% of global cobalt production. [1] Minerals and petroleum are central to the DRC's economy, making up more than 95% of the value of its exports. [2]
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 mining industry improved the standard of living of those living along Northern Rhodesia's railroads, and increased the influx of white people, the Europeans from South Africa who wanted to maintain their superiority over the native African population. Native Africans were poorly treated by the whites and discouraged from working in the ...
Foreign investment, mostly from the United States and South Africa drove major expansion in the copper industry between 1924 and 1969. [10] Mining increased GDP, and by 1969 Zambia had one of the largest economies in Africa. Between 1925 and 1975, Kabwe mine was the largest lead mine in Africa. [11]