DRC

 The Epiroc Scooptram ST14 loader is part of the order by JCHX Mining and Construction
MINING

Epiroc wins large order for mining equipment in DRC

Democratic Republic of the Congo miner places a significant equipment order with Epiroc

30 March 2023

 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 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

 Kakula's team members with one of the project's newly commissioned Epiroc 282 double-boom, semi-autonomous drill rigs
MINING

Kakula Copper underground development continues significantly ahead of schedule

Development work at Kakula Copper Mine in the DRC continues ahead of schedule

08 July 2020

 Mine engineers at the underground ore transfer station at the Kakula Mine prior to it being made fully operational
MINING

Developing ahead of schedule

Once complete, the Kakula copper mine in the DRC will produce copper as environmentally as possible

03 June 2020

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