Installation of the scavenger-cleaner flotation cell at the Phase 2 concentrator is nearing completion.

 Zijin News – The Kamoa-Kakula Mining Complex, one of Zijin Mining’s flagship projects in the DRC, produced around 33,000 tonnes of copper in concentrate in October. For the second month in a row, Kamoa-Kakula is producing at an annualized rate in excess of 400,000 tonnes of copper.

At the end of October, there was an additional 5,786 tonnes of floated, but not yet filtered, copper in inventory.

Construction of the additional concentrate thickener is advancing well.

The project’s debottlenecking program is approximately 70% complete and is tracking ahead of schedule. The program, expected to be complete in Q2 2023, will increase the combined design processing capacity of the Phase 1 and Phase 2 concentrator plants from 7.6 million tonnes per annum to approximately 9.2 million.

The processing team at Kamoa-Kakula stress-tested the operating rate of the Phase 2 concentrator and over a 24-hour period achieved a record of approximately 14,000 tonnes of ore milled. This is equivalent to a milling rate of 9.3 million tonnes per annum from both the Phase 1 and 2 concentrators.

Translator: Chen Peng    Reviser: Li Yuanxing   Editor-in-Chief: Wang Jie

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