DRC: Félix Tshisekedi and Sama Lukonde attended the inauguration of the new KCC research plant in Kolwezi
Over 300,000 tonnes of copper and over 40,000 tonnes of cobalt per year. KCC employs over 10,000 people to date. Kamoto Copper Compagny is a mining company with superlatives.
Larger in all areas, Kamoto Copper Company was honored to receive, on May 13, 2021, an extremely rare event, both the visit of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister.
This mining giant, the largest producer of cobalt in the world, weighs nearly 6 billion US dollars in investment. It is also the largest producer of copper in Africa and the largest mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Very large provider of jobs with its 10,373 agents, including 5,884 direct and 4,489 agents through its contractors, KCC will continue, according to forecasts, to exist and create jobs until 2042 and will be able to generate a total income of 2.237 billion euros. U.S. dollars.
Its copper production of 270 thousand tons has risen to 300 thousand tons a year. From 25 thousand tons, the production of cobalt rose to 40 thousand tons per year. Kamoto Copper Company is an underground (sulphide) mine that does drilling, mining, support and transport. It is also an open pit mine (Oxyde) where drilling, mining and transport are also carried out. It has a concentrator where the ores are crushed, crushed and floated. KCC has installed its refinery in Luilu where calcination, leaching and stripping takes place. It produces iron, aluminum and manganese (by purification and precipitation), electrolysis to collect copper to the cathode and cobalt hydroxide.
The first DRC mining company to establish its own program and business development department, KCC has invested US $ 142 million in the public-private partnership with SNEL. It paid 349 million US dollars in taxes to the Congolese state and spent 32% of its income on local suppliers.
When it comes to workplace safety, KCC makes it a point of honor that its agents have the time to do every job safely.
It should be remembered that KCC was born from the preliminary agreement signed on June 24, 2003 between Gécamines and KINROSS-FORREST LIMITED “KFL”, enriched by amendment n ° 1 of July 4, 2003 and by a confidentiality agreement relating thereto. for the exploitation and processing of minerals located in the western group of Gécamines. This project consists of the rehabilitation of the KAMOTO underground mine, the rehabilitation and development of an open pit as a source of oxide ores (DIKULWE, MASHAMBA and T17), the rehabilitation of the KAMOTO and DIMA concentrators, as well as LUILU factories. Subsequently, a joint venture agreement was signed between the same parties on February 7, 2004.The aforementioned joint venture agreement took over the provisions of the preliminary agreement which provided, among other things, for the creation of KCC SARL. This is how the parties signed, in November 2005, the articles of association of KCC SARL.
