Category: CKM Newsletter

          DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week    Kamoa- Kakula Phase 2, 3.8 million TPA Concentrator Commissioned Ahead of Schedule Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF) Co-Chair Robert Friedland is pleased to announce today at the Financial Times Global Commodities Summit, to an audience of international mining and market leaders, the start of hot commissioning of the Phase 2, 3.8-million-tonne-per-annum concentrator plant at the Kamoa-Kakula Mining Complex. In addition, the first filtered copper concentrate production from… Read full details   … Read More Here

    DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week Milingo Lungu has resigned from his position as Konkola Copper Mines Plc Provisional Liquidator with immediate effect The provisional liquidator of Zambia’s Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a company over which Vedanta Resources and the Zambian government have been locked in a long dispute, has resigned. Milingo Lungu has resigned from his position as Konkola Copper Mines Plc Provisional Liquidator with immediate effect. According to his resignation letter dated March 17, 2022 and addressed to KCM official… Read More Here

      DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week   Zambia and the DRC agree to set up a common governance framework, called the DRC-ZAMBIA Battery Council As part of the cooperation agreement on the establishment of a value chain on the manufacture of batteries and clean energies in the very next few days, between the Congolese President Félix Antoine TSHISEKEDI TSHILOMBO and his Zambian counterpart Hakande HICHILEMA, the Minister of Finance, Nicolas KAZADI, took an active part in a meeting in LUSAKA in… Read More Here

      DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week   African Energy Metals has acquired Whiskey Cobalt Mining’s (WCM’s) interest in the Manono tin, tantalum and lithium project TSX-V-listed African Energy Metals has acquired Whiskey Cobalt Mining’s (WCM’s) interest in the Manono tin, tantalum and lithium project, in the prolific Manono area in the Tanganyika province of south-east Democratic Republic of Congo. The disposal by WCM of the project, comprising an exploitation permit covering about 30 km2, will involve WCM assigning African Energy Metals… Read More Here

      DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week   SA Mining Veteran, Riaan Vermeulen Appointed as Kamoa Copper’s New Managing Director Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) (OTCQX: IVPAF) President, Marna Cloete, announced today that Riaan Vermeulen has been appointed as Kamoa Copper’s new Managing Director, effective June 1, 2022. Mr. Vermeulen will work with Kamoa Copper’s current CEO Mark Farren during a handover period to ensure a… Read full details    Download the latest, Jan/Feb 2022    CKM eMagazine for free (4mb filesize)  … Read More Here

    DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week     A New Agreement to Get Back the Ultra High Grade Kipushi Mine production Kipushi, Democratic Republic of Congo – Ivanhoe Mines Executive Co-Chair Robert Friedland and President Marna Cloete, together with Alphonse Kaputo Kalubi (Chairman) and Bester-Hilaire Ntambwe Ngoy Kabongo (CEO) of Gécamines, DRC’s state-owned mining company, are pleased to announce that Kipushi Holding, an Ivanhoe Mines wholly-owned subsidiary, and Gécamines have signed a new agreement to return… Read full details    Download the… Read More Here

    DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week     African Tender Notice | DRC Announcement Date: 9 February 2022 Tender Description: Tender for the Supply and Delivery of 3m x 2.1m Mesh Panels (x1500 pieces) to a Mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Deadline… Read full details    Download the latest, Jan/Feb 2022    CKM eMagazine for free (4mb filesize)                   BHP Reports Lower Volumes at Olympic Dam due to a Planned Smelter Maintenance Campaign DRC’s Mining Police Seize a… Read More Here

    DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week     Mining will go ahead but under strict adherence to measures set by the Zambia Environmental Management Agency-ZEMA Zambian Government says the embattled open pit mining project in the heart of the Lower Zambezi National Park will go ahead but under strict adherence to measures set by the Zambia Environmental Management Agency-ZEMA– to limit damage to the environment to a minimum. Green Economy and Environment Minister Collins Nzovu said that with the whole process exhausted… Read More Here

  DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week All eyes are on Zambia… “All eyes are on Zambia,” says Peter Major, director of mining at Mergence Corporate Solutions in South Africa. Major spoke in Cape Town in October as he prepared for a mining investment trip to Zambia. In the new president, Hakainde Hichilema, he says, the country has “a real businessman” in charge. With billions of dollars worth of African gas, gold, copper and cobalt to hit the markets in… Read full article   … Read More Here

  DR Congo & Zambia’s Premier Mining News Our top stories this week   FQM achieved its highest-ever annual copper production of 816,000 tonnes… Lower ore grades at First Quantum Minerals’ two flagship Zambian mines last year have underscored the company’s goal of investing further in new production facilities. Globally the company achieved its highest-ever annual copper production of 816,000 tonnes, a 5% increase from 2020, but this was attributed to record production at its new Cobre Panama mine, and the resilience of its other operations… Read full article    … Read More Here