Conveyor belts feed broken rock into stockpiles at an open-pit copper mine in Zambia
Note. Zambia is part of the Central African Copperbelt, which is home to some of the richest and most plentiful deposits of copper-cobalt (Cu-CO) in the world.
The majority of the Copperbelt lies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a massive country which continues to suffer from disorganization in government administration.
A long and precarious relationship with its vast mining sector in the DRC is now sending many foreign-owned companies looking to Zambia as more viable alternative