Qualla: Deziwa mine https://qualla.com/deziwa-mine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Deziwa mine https://qualla.com/deziwa-mine Deziwa mine: Introduction https://qualla.com/deziwa-mine/ The red earth around Kolwezi is the single most important patch of ground in the global energy transition, and most people driving electric cars have never heard of it. Thirty-five kilometres east of the city, a pit called Deziwa opens into the Lualaba plateau: an estimated 4.6 million tonnes of copper and 420,000 tonnes of cobalt lie in the rocks below. Cobalt makes lithium-ion batteries stable. Copper makes almost everything electric possible. Deziwa, adjacent to the sprawling Mutanda operation, is where some of it comes out of the ground - and where the deals to get it out have been anything but straightforward.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/4/6/deziwa-mine-wp/kw46-deziwa-mine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Deziwa mine: A Fifteen-Year Handshake https://qualla.com/deziwa-mine/ The paperwork begins in 2005, when the Congolese state mining company Gécamines agreed to explore Deziwa with a subsidiary of Copperbelt Minerals. A joint venture, Somidec, was set up: 68 percent Copperbelt, 32 percent Gécamines. In 2010, Zijin Mining of China offered $284 millio...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/4/6/deziwa-mine-wp/kw46-deziwa-mine-a-fifteen-year-handshake.mp3 0:06 2 full Deziwa mine: Construction Under Made in China 2025 https://qualla.com/deziwa-mine/ In 2015 the China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group - CNMC - announced plans to develop Deziwa under Beijing's Made in China 2025 industrial strategy. Negotiations ran through 2016. Construction began in May 2018. The mine formally opened in January 2020. It now operates as Somidez, ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/4/6/deziwa-mine-wp/kw46-deziwa-mine-the-people-doing-the-work.mp3 0:06 4 full Deziwa mine: Seen from the Air https://qualla.com/deziwa-mine/ From cruising altitude, the Deziwa operation is a pale scar on a green-brown plateau, the pit a terraced bowl stepping down in the red hues of oxidised copper ore. Tailings ponds glint turquoise in late sun. The road running west leads to Kolwezi, where most of the processed conc...

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