Democratic Republic of Congo

 IMDEX’s chief geoscientist says finding and mining the metals and minerals required for a sustainable future is getting harder and more expensive
VIEWPOINT

Resource nationalism and the metals crunch

How finding and mining critical minerals and rare earths is getting harder and more expensive

10 May 2022

 Epiroc’s Minetruck MT65 is part of the order by Kamoa Copper
MINING

Epiroc wins large mining equipment order in DRC

Epiroc will be supplying a new copper mine in the DRC with drill rigs, haulers and loaders

20 April 2022

 Miners operating a jumbo drill at the face of a high-grade development drift near the centre of the Kakula Mine
MINING

Record underground development at Kamoa-Kakula copper project

Records continue to be set at Ivanhoe's DRC copper project

02 February 2021

 Miner Jean Yav checking on one of Kamoa-Kakula’s Epiroc semi-autonomous, double-boom drilling rigs from Sweden, operating in the Kakula Mine
MINING

Kamoa-Kakula Project secures financing for underground mobile mining equipment

Ivanhoe has secured funding to buy machinery from Sandvik, Epiroc and Normet for DRC copper project

03 December 2020

 The development of the manual water well drilling industry in the DRC has reached a turning point
GROUNDWATER

The rise or fall of the manual drilling sector in the DRC

An insight into the problems concerning the delivery of manual drilling for water wells in the DRC

12 November 2020

 Francis Kaposa (left) trains under the guidance of Rongyun Liu at Kamoa-Kakula's state-of-the-art training centre. As part of the project's extensive training programme, apprentice miners learn to operate automated mining equipment on computerized simulators
MINING

Another monthly development record for Ivanhoe Mines

Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project in the DRC continues to set records for development for Ivanhoe Mines

05 November 2020

 A SmartROC D65 from Epiroc made its debut on Africa’s Copperbelt when it was put to work by Blu Rock at Glencore’s Mutanda cobalt deposit
MINING

A major milestone for Mutanda

The first SmartROC D65 in Africa's Copperbelt is delivering results for Blu Rock Mining Services

14 September 2020

 A load of copper ore being transported up the Kakula South decline, one of the two southern access drives has entered the plus five per cent-copper mining zone
MINING

Kakula copper mine underground development exceeds 1,840m in August

Kakula is projected to be the world's highest-grade major copper mine

03 September 2020

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