Friday, April 19, 2013

KCM multi-billion kwacha Nchanga smelter gutted



KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) Nchanga smelter has been gutted leading to the spillage of hundreds of tones of molten copper.


Nchanga Smelter in Chingola
The inferno has paralysed production at the smelter which has the capacity of producing 1, 850 tones of acid per day 300,000 tones of finished copper per year.

The cause of inferno which had caused substantial damage to the facility has not yet been established.

The inferno started around 17:00 hours and was only put off at about 19:00 hours.


This is the third time the Nchanga smelter has been on fire. The other infernos at the smelter were on the Christmas even of 2008 and April 5, 2009. 

Nchanga smelter is one of the largest smelters in Africa and in the world and it also highly computerized such that it only needs a click of the computer mouth to get the whole process of copper production done.

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