Accident at Glencore’s DRC mine kills scores of artisanal miners
The collapse at the copper and cobalt mine at the Kamoto Copper Company concession on Thursday was ‘caused by illegal mining’
28 June 2019 - 10:40
Kinshasa/Dakar — The number of artisanal miners killed by a landslide at a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore in southeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rose to 43 on Friday and could climb further as the search for missing workers continues, local officials said.
Thursday’s accident occurred in the KOV open-pit mine at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession near DRC's southern border with Zambia, in which Glencore subsidiary Katanga Mining has a 75% stake...
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