Province Katanga Province | Products Copper | |
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Country Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||
The Kananga Mine is an open pit copper mine near Kolwezi in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Ownership
In March 2004, Dan Gertler International in partnership with Beny Steinmetz Global founded a firm named Global Enterprises Corporate (GEC). In May 2004 GEC signed a preliminary agreement with the state-owned Gécamines, finalized in September that year, to rehabilitate and operate the Kananga and Tilwezembe copper mines. Gertler and Steinmetz placed GEC'S 75% share in KOV into Nikanor Plc, registered in the Isle of Man. Nikanor's stock was listed on the LSE's Alternative Investment Market in London in July 2006. In January 2008 Katanga Mining finalized acquisition of Nikanor PLC for $452m. As of March 2010 the mine was the property of KCC, a subsidiary of Katanga Mining in which Gécamines held an interest.