Copperbelt
Copperbelt is a province in the northern part of Zambia. It is named after the copper reserves. It has an area of 31,328 km2. It occupies the upper portion of the Kafue river basin on the central plateau of southern Africa, 900 to 1,500 m above sea level.
It is one of the Zambia's ten provinces and the hub of the country.[1][2]
Copperbelt Media
Central African Copper Belt geologic map of Katanga Supergroup and mine locations
Rwandan migrant workers in a Congolese copper mine, c.1920, during the Belgian colonial period
Copperbelt mining centers
Pre-colonial copper coin from the Katanga Province. These coins forming the Katanga Cross are no longer produced, but those remaining are used symbolically among traditional families for the payment of dowry (along with money and other goods).
Native copper, Mufulira Mine of the Copperbelt Province of Zambia where the Katanga Supergroup formations are mined for copper
Sources
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19902076 | BBC News - Digging for copper, dreaming of gold in Zambia
- ↑ Zambia poll: Riots in Kitwe and Ndola over slow results - BBC News
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