Lumwana Copper Mine Commissioning To Be In December 2008

Production at Lumwana Copper Mine will start in December 2008 when all replacement of all equipment damaged in a fire on 7th July 2008 is completed.

According to the company’s website, the Chief executive officer of Lumwana, Craig Williams, said in a statement that completion and testing of the equipment would only be done by December 2008.

Production was supposed to have started at the end of July 2008. The fire damaged the 20MVA transformer and adjacent 11kV sub-station, which form part of the process plant facility.

The mine is expected to be the largest open-pit copper Mine in Africa. It is anticipated that full production will be met by end of June 2009, with an annual output of 169,000 tones of copper concentrate.

Mr. Williams assured all shareholders that they would be kept informed as the company progresses towards first concentrate production.

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