Congo (DRC) Kamoa-Kakula Copper plans to increase mining capacity and build the world's fourth largest copper-producing mine

Congo (DRC) Kamoa-Kakula Copper plans to increase mining capacity and build the world's fourth largest copper-producing mine

In February last year, Zijin Mining and Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines announced that Kamoa Copper Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Kamoa Copper”), a partnership between the two parties in the Congo (DRC) government, announced Kamoa-Kakula. (Kamoa-Kakula) Copper Mine Capacity Improvement Plan, on the basis of the second-phase project being put into operation in April last year, it is proposed to increase the design capacity of the first and second-phase processing plants from the original processing ore volume of 7.6 million tons per year to 9.2 million tons / year, with an annual output of more than 450,000 tons of copper, making it the fourth largest copper-producing mine in the world.