Kinsevere

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Kinsevere
Location
Kinsevere is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kinsevere
Kinsevere
ProvinceKatanga Province
CountryDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Coordinates11°21′48″S 27°33′50″E / 11.363461°S 27.564011°E / -11.363461; 27.564011Coordinates: 11°21′48″S 27°33′50″E / 11.363461°S 27.564011°E / -11.363461; 27.564011
Production
ProductsCopper
Production36,000 tonnes
Financial year2011
Owner
CompanyMinmetals Resources

Kinsevere is an open pit mine and Heavy Media Separation plant with an electric arc furnace formerly operated by Anvil Mining, and now operated by Minerals and Metals Group. It is located 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Lubumbashi, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.[1]

Kinsevere is in the Kipushi Territory in Katanga province. There are three deposits: Central Pit, Mashi and Kinsevere Hill. These are mostly stratiform deposits in alternating dolomitic and terrigenous formations. The dolomitic rocks that underlay the formations are excellent aquifers.[2]

For the year of 2011, Anvil expected to produce between 36,000 and 38,000 tonnes of copper as copper cathodes and copper in concentrates. Anvil was completing construction of a $400 million SX-EW plant to extract the copper, and the Heavy Media Separation plant was scheduled to shut down at the end of June 2011.[3] After the upgrades, the mine is expected to produce about 60,000 tons of copper annually. Anvil is studying the potential for further increasing the rate of production. In 2012 Minerals and Metals Group made a successful takeover bid for Anvil worth $1.3 billion.[4][5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Kinsevere Stage II Copper Project" (PDF). Ausenco. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-01. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
  2. ^ "Kinsevere Copper Mine". Knight Piésold. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
  3. ^ "Kinsevere". Anvil Mining. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
  4. ^ Esmarie Swanepoel (7 October 2011). "Anvil reports fatality at DRC Kinsevere project". Mining Weekly. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
  5. ^ "Minmetals Resources Successfully Acquired Anvil". MMG web site. 17 February 2012. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
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