Mwekera Shaft (Macrolink) - Zambian Copperbelt (sitios de interés)

• Macrolink, a Chinese mining firm intends to invest USD 42m in developing a copper mine in Mwekera area, 24km north of the Ndola central business centre. Macrolink Resources Zambia Limited, which is also running a mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a subsidiary of Macrolink Group in China with headquarters in Beijing.

• Macrolink Deputy Chief Executive, Philip Che said that in 2009, Macrolink, who had a 25-year mining licence, invested USD 1m to verify historical geological data for Mwekera copper deposit and is now injecting USD 1.5m in exploration to get geological information, complete the project feasibility study and prepare for project development.

• Mr Che said the flotation plant would have the processing capacity of 2,000t per day and that the ores from the underground mine would first be sent for crushing before being concentrated using the froth flotation process to get copper concentrates of 30% copper. Once fully operational, Macrolink Mine would create 625 jobs broken down as 544 for Zambians and 81 expatriates out of which four would be Zambian managers and six would be expatriate managers. (Source: Times of Zambia)

 

According the company website following subsidiaries are active  in the area:

Machine translation!

[New Hualian Mining Corp of Zambia]

[Congo (DRC) JMT Ltd]

[Congo (DRC) MJM Co Ltd]

 

Info: EIAR - Mwekera Copper Project (202 pages)

 

Shaft around 28.515427E, -12.796419N

Portal around 28.517548E, -12.799050N