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Lobito

Port, Angola, founded 1843.

About Lobito

Town of Angola.1

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Trade routes

Shipped throughKatanga copper via the Benguela Railway to LobitoLobito was an end of the katanga copper via the benguela railway to lobito route.2

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q223914 (Lobito)
  2. Zaire SNCZ Railway Project, Staff Appraisal Report 1986-ZR (25 April 1979) World Bank

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: Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0.