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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.
Map of the Mining in the DRC Rubaya coltan mines. 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]
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 Deziwa mine is a large open-pit copper and cobalt mine located about 35 km east of Kolwezi in Lualaba Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] The mine is estimated to hold 4.6 million tonnes of copper and 420,000 tonnes of cobalt. The mine sits directly adjacent to the Mutanda Mine.
There are 72 economic deposits of copper/cobalt and four large mining centers. [3] Taken together, the DRC and Zambian copper belts are the second largest global reserve of copper, about 1/3 the size of the Chilean reserve. [4] The DRC copper belt includes some of the highest-grade copper deposits in the world. In some reserves the grades are ...
The mine has 200,000 million tonne ore body with a seven (7) million tonnes of copper at a high-grade rate of eight (8) percent [93] and large quantities of cobalt. [94] Lubambe copper mine was originally a joint venture between African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Vale [91] until EMR Capital acquired controlling interest in 2017. [92]
The tech and car companies claim they don’t source cobalt from artisanal mines, but Kara repeatedly and consistently sees the stuff entering the supply chain; he calls these claims “fiction.”
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. [5] In November 2006 a feasibility study confirmed that the mine could be reopened at relatively low cost given its capacity.