Cota Mining of Congo Stops Copper Output to Build New Furnace
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Cota Mining Sprl, a Chinese-owned copper and cobalt producer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, halted copper production while it builds a bigger furnace, said Jean-Paul Ilunga, the company's export manager.
Cota last month demolished six copper furnaces which produced a combined 100 metric tons of blister copper a month in Lubumbashi, the capital of the southern Katanga province, Ilunga said today in a phone interview. The new furnace will start production in about two months, he said. He didn't know what capacity the facility will have.