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Kolwezi (kōlwĕz`ē), city (1984 pop. 416,122), Katanga province, SE Congo (Kinshasa). It is a center for copper and cobalt mining. There are copper-ore concentration plants, a zinc refinery, and a brewery. Rebels attacked the city in 1978, flooding the mines.
Kolwezi a city in Shaba Province of the Republic of Zaïre. Population, 45,200 (1960). Station on the railroad leading to the port of Lobito in Angola. Kolwezi is the center of the western group of mines (Kamoto, Musonoi) of the copperbelt. The city has a zinc-electrolytic plant and paint and varnish enterprises. It also has a food-processing industry. A copper and cobalt electrolysis plant is located nearby. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | KAT, Stock Forum) tumbled 21% to 30 cents after the company confirmed that it has temporarily suspended mining operations at the Tilwezembe open pit and ore processing at the Kolwezi Concentrator, in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The move comes in light of the depressed price of cobalt, says the company, which adds that it will not be producing cobalt concentrate as a result. AMZ's victory was at the expense of the South African mining giant, Anglo American, and Belgium's Union Miniere both of which had been granted licences by Mobutu before his overthrow to mine copper and cobalt in Kasomba and Kolwezi respectively. Likewise, Tim Read, the president and CEO of American Mineral Fields which has stakes with AngloAmerican in the large Kolwezi cobalt and copper tailings project in Katanga, told his company's shareholders that: "We were encouraged by President Kabila's reassurances that measures will be put in place to make the DRC more attractive to foreign investment and reconstruct the national economy. |
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