Pweto Airport is a 2580 feet (786.4 m) airstrip serving Pweto

Pweto

Pweto is a town in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is the administrative center of the Pweto Territory. The town was the scene of a decisive battle in December 2000 during the Second Congo War which resulted in both sides making more active efforts to achieve...

, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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...

. It lies an an altitude of 3425 feet (1,043.9 m) to the west of the main town.

After the decision to start construction on a copper mine in nearby Kapulo

Kapulo

Kapulo is a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the location of a cassiterite mine and of a planned copper mine.In 2007 one of the two remaining full FARDC brigades in Katanga was stationed in Pweto Territory. This brigade, the 62nd, was illegally exploiting the Cassiterite mine in...

in July 2011, the Australian company developing the property began to upgrade the road to the airstrip, which is 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) or 45 minutes by road away from the mine. The company had no plans to develop an alternative airstrip.