A briefing on DRC's state-owned miners - Resource nationalism - Africa (sitios de interés)
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The state-owned mining company Gécamines is now reorganising and wants to raise copper output to 100,000 tpy by 2015, from about 18,500 tonnes in 2010.Gécamines plans to produce 35,000 tonnes of copper in 2012 but will have to shake off its $1.6 billion debt.
Kalej Nkand is Gécamines’ chief executive; businessman Albert Yuma is Gécamines’ president. Both were appointed in 2010 by the central government in Kinshasa.
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