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Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
On-line version ISSN 2411-9717
Print version ISSN 2225-6253
Abstract
AMOS, S.; NKUNA, V. and MATSETELA, B.. The giant Kamoa-Kakula project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. J. S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall. [online]. 2018, vol.118, n.11, pp.1121-1129. ISSN 2411-9717. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2411-9717/2018/v118n11a1.
The Kamoa-Kakula copper project-a joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines, Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd, and the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo-has been independently ranked as the world's largest undeveloped high-grade copper discovery by international mining consultant Wood Mackenzie. It is a very large, near-surface stratiform copper deposit with adjacent prospective exploration areas within the Central African Copperbelt, approximately 25 km west of the town of Kolwezi and about 270 km west of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi. A phased development approach is currently envisaged. The first phase of the project involves the development of a 6 Mt/a underground mine and surface processing complex (dual stream concentrator) at the Kakula deposit, a discovery announced in early 2016. The second phase involves an integrated 12 Mt/a two-stage development, beginning with initial production from the Kakula mine, to be followed by a subsequent, separate underground mining operation at the nearby Kansoko mine, along with the construction of a smelter.
Keywords : copper; Democratic Republic of Congo; mineral resources; economic evaluation; staged development.