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Kisanfu (KFM) mine

Kisanfu (KFM) mine, DR Congo. Producing, open pit, mining cobalt, copper.

Why Kisanfu (KFM) is famous

Copper and cobalt open pit in Lualaba, DR Congo. History not yet sourced.1

What kind of deposit

Sediment-hosted stratabound copper

Kisanfu (KFM) today

Where cobalt is mined todayWhere copper is mined todayMining in DR Congo

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofSediment-hosted stratabound copperKisanfu (KFM) belongs to the sediment-hosted stratabound copper family of deposits.2

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Malachite on cobaltocalcite, Musonoi by Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 3.0. Pictures: Kopermijn te Kolwezi in de provincie Shaba (Katanka), Mieremet, Rob / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Chiquicamata Mine, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).