Chambishi Copper Mine

The project is operated by Non-Ferrous China Africa (NFCA) (also known as NFC Africa), a wholly owned CNMC subsidiary. It is primarily a copper mining operation with both underground (main and west orebodies) and open-pit (Southeast Orebody) components also producing gold as a minor by-product . The Southeast Orebody Project, launched in 2018 with a US $830 million investment. The Sino-Metals operation occupies 330 km² of mining licenses covering the Mwambashi and Samba areas; the Mwambashi open pit alone extracts 500,000 t of ore per year. It is noted as Africa’s first “digital mine,” producing ore that’s fed to the concentrator for copper and cobalt concentrates . CNMC subsidiary Sino-Metals Leach Zambia handles hydrometallurgical operations, using leaching and solvent extraction to process lower-grade ores into copper cathode.