Qualla: Kinsevere https://qualla.com/kinsevere 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: Kinsevere https://qualla.com/kinsevere Kinsevere: Introduction https://qualla.com/kinsevere/ In 2007 a Congolese politician named Moise Katumbi won the governorship of Katanga Province in an election run, by his own description, in the American style: billboards, branded convoys, stump speeches. The money came from a copper mine thirty kilometers north of Lubumbashi. Katumbi's mining company had sold its stake in Kinsevere for 61.3 million dollars. He used the proceeds to win a province roughly the size of France. Kinsevere has never stopped being that kind of story. It is a pit dug in red earth where copper and cobalt are pulled out and sold, and where every ton of rock is also a political transaction.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/g/x/kinsevere-wp/ktgx-kinsevere-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kinsevere: Rock and Aquifer https://qualla.com/kinsevere/ Technically Kinsevere is three deposits: Central Pit, Mashi, and Kinsevere Hill. The ore bodies are stratiform, lying in alternating bands of dolomite and weathered terrigenous rock, the kind of geology that rewards open-pit extraction. The dolomitic formations beneath make excel...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/g/x/kinsevere-wp/ktgx-kinsevere-rock-and-aquifer.mp3 0:06 2 full Kinsevere: The Deal That Built a Campaign https://qualla.com/kinsevere/ Gecamines, the Congolese state mining company, owned the Kinsevere deposit outright until the early 2000s, when it leased the site on a 25-year term to Moise Katumbi's Mining Company Katanga. By June 2006 the Australian firm Anvil Mining held 70 percent of the operating joint ven...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/g/x/kinsevere-wp/ktgx-kinsevere-the-deal-that-built-a-campaign.mp3 0:06 3 full Kinsevere: Minmetals Arrives https://qualla.com/kinsevere/ In September 2011 a Hong Kong-listed company called Minmetals Resources made a 1.3 billion dollar bid for Anvil. Anvil's board accepted unanimously. Gecamines immediately argued the ownership change triggered a review of the lease and threatened to block the deal. Minmetals exten...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/g/x/kinsevere-wp/ktgx-kinsevere-minmetals-arrives.mp3 0:06 4 full Kinsevere: Copper to Cobalt https://qualla.com/kinsevere/ In October 2020 MMG announced it would halt mining at Kinsevere to rebuild the processing plant for oxide ore rather than sulfide. Nothing came out of the pits in 2021. In March 2022 the company unveiled a 600 million dollar expansion aimed at 80,000 tonnes of copper cathode per ...

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