Project overview
Kamoto Underground Mine
The Kamoto Underground Mine, Katanga’s primary sulphide ore source, has twin six and a half by six meter ramp declines, a service shaft and an 11,000 tonnes per day production shaft.
Kamoto Underground Mine details
KOV Open Pit Mine
The KOV Open Pit Mine is considered to be the world’s highest grade significant copper resource. During its lifetime 38 million tonnes of ore have been mined at an average grade of 5.8 per cent copper and 0.5 per cent cobalt.
Kamoto Concentrator
The Kamoto Concentrator consists of four milling and flotation sections constructed between 1969 and 1982, with a design capacity of 7.5 million tonnes of ore per year.
Luilu Metallurgical Plant
The Luilu Metallurgical Plant has roasters, leaching circuits and electro-winning cells for copper and cobalt production. It has a potential capacity of 175,000 tonnes of copper and 8,000 tonnes of cobalt a year.
Luilu Metallurgical Plant details
Greenfield SX/EW Refinery
The planned Greenfield SX/EW Refinery more than doubles Katanga’s capacity, with increased recoveries and higher grade metal production. Its design has two modules, each producing 80,000 tpy copper.
Greenfield SX/EW Refinery details
Mashamba East
The open pit mine Mashamba East produced a total of 9.8 million tonnes of ore at an average grade of 4.96 per cent copper and 0.35 per cent cobalt during its short operating life.
Musonoie-T17
The Musonoie-T17 open pit mine – a new site, with no significant production history to date – is the initial oxide source for the mine complex.
Kananga
Kananga is an open pit operation with a cobalt-rich ore body. With no significant production history, operations have currently ceased.
Tilwezembe
Operations at the cobalt-rich Tilwezembe open pit operation feed the Kolwezi Concentrator.
Kolwezi Concentrator
The Kolwezi Concentrator was restarted in September 2006 and further overhauled in February 2008. It has a design output of 655,000 tonnes of concentrate per year.
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