The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Chamber of Mines expects the country to mine about 1.5 million tonnes of copper in 2018, up from roughly one million in 2016.
The country was Africa’s top copper producer,
The chamber’s Vice-President Simon Tuma-Waku said on Wednesday at the African Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town that the expected 2018 resumption of Glencore’s Katanga Mining project would significantly boost national output.
Production had been suspended since September 2016.
