Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex
One of the world's largest and highest-grade copper complexes, with power supply and export logistics as the defining constraints.
Key data
- Location
- Lualaba Province
- Stage
- Expansion
- Status
- Operating with phased expansion and on-site smelter
- Capacity
- Multi-phase concentrator capacity; see operator disclosures
- CAPEX
- Pending verification
- Timeline
- First production 2021; phased expansion ongoing
- Owner
- Ivanhoe Mines
- Partners
- Pending verification
- Commodities
- Copper
- Value chain
- Copper to cathode
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Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex
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