Kalumbila District is a district of
North-Western Province,
Zambia
Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...
. It was named after a mine of the same name (
Kalumbila Mine) and was made independent from
Solwezi District
Solwezi District is a district of Zambia, located in North-Western Province. The capital lies at Solwezi. As of the 2000 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 203,797 people.
Population
According to the 2010 national census and househo ...
In 2016.
The current area of Kalumbila district covers what was previously known as
Solwezi West Constituency for electoral purposes under the Electoral Commission of Zambia. Kalumbila as
Solwezi West, the current Solwezi and
Mushindamo districts then as
Solwezi Central and
Solwezi East respectively, formed what was the larger Solwezi district before it was split up to create the three independent districts. In the Zambian National Assembly, the three legislators representing these areas are still addressed using the old names as Solwezi West, Solwezi Central and Solwezi East Members of Parliament.
Mining
Kalumbila Mine is a copper mine operated by FQM Trident Limited, a mining firm that is 100%
First Quantum Minerals
First Quantum Minerals is a Canadian-based mining and metals company whose principal activities include mineral exploration, development and mining. Its main product is copper, which accounts for 80% of revenues as of 2016.
First Quantum's com ...
of Canada.
The Enterprise Nickel Project is an
open-pit
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock (geology), rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a Borrow pit, b ...
nickel mine, also owned by First Quantum Minerals, and is 12 km from the Kalumbila Mine.
The Kalumbila Mine processing facility will be used to produce nickel concentrate output.
The project, estimated at U$275 million, was expected to be operational at the end of 2021 but as of March 2022 was still yet to be operational. In May 2022, First Quantum Minerals approved an additional US$100 million investment the project, which is now expected to commence production in 2023.
References
Districts of North-Western Province, Zambia
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