Qualla: Bwana Mkubwa https://qualla.com/bwana-mkubwa en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/q/bwana-mkubwa-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bwana Mkubwa https://qualla.com/bwana-mkubwa Bwana Mkubwa: Introduction https://qualla.com/bwana-mkubwa/ Photo credit Unbekannte Autoren und Grafiker; Scan vom EDHAC e.V., Public domain. Call the mine Big Boss. That is roughly what Bwana Mkubwa means in Swahili - great master, the man in charge - and the name stuck sometime in the early 1900s when prospectors William Collier and Jack Donohoe were led to ancient copper workings outside Ndola and decided to name their new venture after the local Native Commissioner, Francis Emilius Fletcher Jones, whom the locals already called the Bwana Mkubwa. The miners who did the actual digging probably had other names for him. But on the maps, the name stuck.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/q/bwana-mkubwa-wp/ktsq-bwana-mkubwa-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bwana Mkubwa: Older Than the Paperwork https://qualla.com/bwana-mkubwa/ Photo credit Unbekannte Autoren und Grafiker; Scan vom EDHAC e.V., Public domain. The colonial paperwork says Bwana Mkubwa opened in 1902. The rocks tell a different story. Archaeologists have found evidence of copper mining here in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, and in the centuries that followed - ancient workings at Bwana Mkubwa, Kansanshi, and Kipu...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/q/bwana-mkubwa-wp/ktsq-bwana-mkubwa-older-than-the-paperwork.mp3 0:06 2 full Bwana Mkubwa: The Perkins Process Disaster https://qualla.com/bwana-mkubwa/ Photo credit Unbekannte Autoren und Grafiker; Scan vom EDHAC e.V., Public domain. After the First World War, the Bwana Mkubwa Copper Mining Company made a bet. Low-grade ore was everywhere in the Copperbelt, and if you could find a way to extract copper from ore as lean as four percent copper, you could unlock enormous reserves - an estimated 3.7 million tons ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/q/bwana-mkubwa-wp/ktsq-bwana-mkubwa-the-perkins-process-disaster.mp3 0:06 3 full Bwana Mkubwa: The Settlement That Never Became a Town https://qualla.com/bwana-mkubwa/ Photo credit Unbekannte Autoren und Grafiker; Scan vom EDHAC e.V., Public domain. In 1929, the company proposed a public township with laid-out lots. By 1931, the proposal had gone nowhere - the final version was rejected chiefly because the company worried about local taxation cutting into its profits. So Bwana Mkubwa never gained municipal status. Today it i...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/q/bwana-mkubwa-wp/ktsq-bwana-mkubwa-the-settlement-that-never-became-a-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Bwana Mkubwa: The SX-EW Years https://qualla.com/bwana-mkubwa/ Photo credit Unbekannte Autoren und Grafiker; Scan vom EDHAC e.V., Public domain. Modern Bwana Mkubwa came back to life in 1998, when a 30-million-dollar solvent extraction and electrowinning plant - SX-EW in industry shorthand - was built to produce about 10,000 tonnes of copper cathode a year. In 2007 output reached 25,402 tonnes. In 2008 it collapsed to 5,8...

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