What will Kansanshi’s S3 expansion mean for Zambia? For starters, it will almost double the North-Western Province mine’s current copper output, responding to the world’s growing need for this metal that’s critical to the green energy transition.
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Almost two years after becoming the first woman in Zambia to head up an exploration company at Kobold Metals' Africa division, Ms Mfikeyi Makayi tells Mining For Zambia how she got where she is today, and what it’s like...
In May 2022, First Quantum Minerals (FQM) reinforced its commitment to Zambia by investing $1.25 billion in an expansion project at Kansanshi, known as the ‘S3 project’. The project will extend the life of mine by 20 years, protect...
Anthony Mukutuma has had a successful and varied mining career around the world with First Quantum Minerals (FQM) where, as General Manager of Kansanshi, he’s now overseeing the mine’s exciting new pit and smelter expansion, known as S3, due...
In our last interview, Mining For Zambia spoke to KoBold Metals’ co-founder and President Josh Goldman about the company’s innovative approach to mineral exploration and how it can speed up the process of finding and delineating mineral reserves. But...
Zambia was once again among the world’s five least attractive jurisdictions for mining investment – that is, according to the Fraser Institute’s latest Annual Survey of Mining Companies. For members of Zambia’s Government, mining industry insiders, finance professionals –...
How many people would leave a prestigious job, their home, their family, and the lifestyle that they’d worked incredibly hard to build for a tent in rural Zambia, in pursuit of a dream? That’s what Dr Sixtus Mulenga did....
KoBold Metals recently appointed Ms Mfikeyi Makayi as CEO of its copper unit in Zambia, making her the country’s first female head in a mining exploration company. What else has been happening at Mingomba? This infographic fills you in. To...
Since minerals exploration and development company KoBold Metals announced it was investing $150 million in developing a copper deposit in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, the media has been abuzz about the role that “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning” played in...
With eight months behind us since First Quantum Minerals took to the stage at the 2022 Investing in African Mining Indaba and announced a $100 million cash injection to bring Zambia’s Enterprise Nickel Mine online, the time is ripe...
