Kambove is a town in Haut-Katanga District

Haut-Katanga District

Haut-Katanga District is a district located in the Katanga Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

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Kambove lies at an altitude of 4783 ft (1457 m). Economic activity in the area includes cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. It is found naturally only in chemically combined form. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal....

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Kambove is the center of the Kambove mines

Kambove mines

The Kambove mines are a group of active or abandoned copper mines near Kambove in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Inactive mines in the region include Kabolela Mine, Kakanda deposit, Kambove Principal Mine and M'sesa Mine....

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Gécamines

Gécamines

Gécamines, or La Générale des Carrières et des Mines, is a state-owned mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo . Its principal products are copper , cobalt and zinc...

, a state-owned mining company, owns the Kamoya central, Kamoya south, Shangolowe and Kamfundwa

Kamfundwa Mine

The Kamfundwa Mine is one of the Kambove mines in the mining region around Kambove, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is near the Shangulowé Mine, about north of the Kamoya mine district.-Secret mine:...

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Ore from these mines is transported to the concentrator at Kambove for extraction of copper and cobalt.