Konkola Copper Mines is a

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company in

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. It is a

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Vedanta Resources Vedanta Resources Limited is an Indian diversified mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and has mining operations in Australia and Zambia and oil and gas oper ...

, a mining conglomerate based in

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. Konkola's name is abbreviated to KCM.

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KCM currently produces 2 million tons of copper

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per year. The company's

Konkola Konkola is an area of Zambia, near Chingola, on the border with Congo. It has large copper reserves. There is a copper smelter at Nchanga. Konkola Copper Mines Konkola Copper Mines established a major mine in the area; it is now controlled by V ...

Deep Mining Project will expand its capacity to 6 million tons of ore per year. Facilities include:
*

Copper Mine *Nchanga Copper Mines near

Chingola Chingola is a city in Zambia's Copperbelt Province, the country's copper-mining region, with a population of 216,626 (2010 census). It is the home of Nchanga Copper Mine, a deep-shaft high-grade content copper mining operation, which subsequent ...

, also producing

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; Nchanga ore concentrator Plants *Nampundwe Pyrites Mine (pyrites are used in the copper smelting process) *The Nchanga (in Chingola) and Nkana Smelters, & Nkana Refinery etc. in

Kitwe Kitwe is the third largest city in terms of infrastructure development (after Lusaka and Ndola) and second largest city in terms of size and population (after Lusaka) in Zambia. With a population of 517,543 (''2010 census provisional'') Kitwe is ...

. The Nchanga is currently the largest copper smelter in Zambia. Exports are transported to the ports of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and

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. Principal markets include the

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. Metal is also sold domestically, to

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(ZAMEFA).

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External links

Konkola Copper Mines official websiteVedanta Resources official websiteKonkola Copper Mines at Alacrastore
*https://www.zccm-ih.com.zm/investments/mining-assets/konkola-copper-mines-plc/ *https://www.banktrack.org/project/konkola_copper_mines *https://www.mining-technology.com/news/zambia-blocks-vedantas-bid-konkola/ Copper mining companies of Zambia Companies with year of establishment missing Vedanta Resources {{copper-company-stub

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