Northwest Zambia’s Domes region highly prospective for Copper mining
According to Nick von Schirnding, Executive Chairman of junior explorer Arc Minerals, the Domes region in northwest Zambia is highly prospective for copper mining, making it one of the most promising areas in the world for the commodity.
The region is attracting attention from several mining majors due to the fact that First Quantum Minerals’ Sentinel mine produced 816,435 tonnes of copper in 2021, making it Africa’s biggest copper mine.
Arc Minerals has an area of 870 km² of land in the Domes region, where it is exploring for copper. Von Schirnding said that the region is a new copper mining province within Zambia and currently accounts for more copper production than the traditional Zambian Copperbelt.
The company’s exploration efforts in Zambia have resulted in “encouraging” results, with virtually every drill hole intersecting copper mineralization. Anglo American signed a joint venture agreement with Arc Minerals in May 2022 in relation to the Zambian licenses.
Arc Minerals is a London Stock Exchange-listed mining company with a focus on exploration and development of copper and cobalt deposits in Africa. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Arc Minerals has interests in several mining projects across Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
In Zambia, Arc Minerals holds a majority stake in the Zamsort copper-cobalt project, which is located in north-western province of Zambia. The project has shown significant potential for copper and cobalt mineralization.
In the DRC, Arc Minerals owns a 99% stake in Casa Mining, which holds exploration licenses covering over 1,200 square kilometers in the gold-rich eastern region of the country.
