Africa's largest copper mining complex has completed a major milestone in its push to establish a new export pathway to global markets, with copper shipped through the Lobito Corridor successfully arriving in Europe for refining.
Ivanhoe Mines announced that copper anodes from the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently reached the Aurubis refinery in Belgium, where they were refined into more than 99.99% pure London Metal Exchange (LME) Grade A copper cathodes.
The update builds on an earlier milestone when Kamoa-Kakula became one of the first major mining operations to export copper through the Lobito Corridor, a rail network connecting the DRC Copperbelt to Angola's Atlantic coast.
At the time, the shipment was viewed as a key test of the corridor's ability to provide an alternative route for Central African minerals to reach global markets.
From corridor test to European delivery
