With protest action rife, especially against open-cast mining, how will minerals to support a cleaner economy be sourced?
The Central African Copperbelt is the largest and highest grade sediment-hosted stratabound copper province in the world.
The Central African Copperbelt (CACB), located in the South-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Northern Zambia and Eastern Angola, sets the tone for miners, of how to perhaps balance mining and the environment.
The Karanga Basin is important to the transition to a low carbon economy because of copper.
There, the Government, BHP Billiton and Oxford University, worked together in a mining project including copper.
Copper is 100% recyclable.
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