Producing since 2016, the Sentinel copper mine is owned and operated by Kalumbila Minerals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian metals and mining company First Quantum Minerals. First Quantum became the owner of the Sentinel copper asset after acquiring Kiwara in a £208m ($260m) cash and share deal in January 2010.
Enterprise and Sentinel are 100 per cent owned by Kalumbila Minerals Limited (KML), a First Quantum subsidiary. They were secured in 2010 when First Quantum acquired 100 per cent of Kiwara PLC and its main asset - a controlling interest in a prospecting license on the periphery of the Kabombo Dome area.
Kalumbila Mine is a copper mine west of Solwezi in North-Western Province, Zambia. It was formed in 2010 and is one of the four copper mines in Zambia. As of 2018, it was the fourth largest mining employer in Zambia with 11 000 workers. Kalumbila is also the name of the town & district where the mine is situated.
FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) has announced that it achieved the highest-ever annual copper production at its Sentinel mine in Kalumbila in 2020. FQM Chairman and CEO Philip Pascall said that positive production was recorded despite unprecedented challenges driven by COVID-19 during the year. Kalumbila mine in North-Western Province recorded a 14% year-on-year increase in its
Posted: (8 days ago) Producing since 2016, the Sentinel copper mine is owned and operated by Kalumbila Minerals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian metals and mining company First Quantum Minerals. First Quantum became the owner of the Sentinel copper asset after acquiring Kiwara in a £208m ($260m) cash and share deal in January 2010.
38,000t of nickel. Enterprise is an open-pit nickel mine located in the Kalumbila district of North Western Province in Zambia. The project is owned and operated by Kalumbila Minerals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian metals and mining company First Quantum Minerals. The Enterprise nickel mine forms part of the larger Trident project that ...
In Zambia First Quantum Minerals (FQM) operates the Kansanshi mine – the largest copper mine in Africa – and smelter and the Sentinel mine in Kalumbila. Both mines are characterised by extremely low grade ore by industry standards. For this reason margins are low and the key to mining them profitably is to maximise efficiencies.
Trident Kalumbila mine project on course. Work on $2 billion Kalumbila minerals, a subsidiary of Toronto listed miner, First Quantum Minerals Limited, situated in Solwezi, is progressing well with the miner seeking to connect to the national grid by December this year. The mine, lying 140 kilometres west of Solwezi, which will embrace a US$680 ...