KIPUSHI
Our Kipushi plant was commissioned in 2001, making it Somika one of the first processing plant in the country. Located within the city limits of Lubumbashi, the Somika Kipushi plant is a key producer of Copper Cathodes and Cobalt (II) Hydroxide.
Copper and Cobalt processing plant: This hydrometallurgy facility sustains production of more than 24,000 TPA of Copper Cathodes and 3,000 MTPA of Cobalt (II) Hydroxide. Feed material of the spiral concentrates come from our Lupoto DMS Plant and run-of-mine (ROM) from other Somika-owned captive mines. Our plant is fitted with state-of-the-art machinery that drives end-to-end metallurgy processing such as raw material handling, crushing, milling, leaching, solvent extraction and electrowinning. The facility also comprises an effluent treatment unit and a tailing storage facility.
LUPOTO
Acquired in 2016, our Lupoto mine is located 25kms from
Lubumbashi and hosts the following
amenities:
DMS Plant :Our facility has the capacity to process over
200TPH of Copper Oxide
ore with average
2.2% grade. The amassed DMS
rejects are processed in a VAT leaching plant,
while the spiral
rejects are preserved in large ponds for later use in copper production.
| ~7.5 % DMS Copper Concentrate | ~0.9 % DMS |
|---|---|
| Rejects | |
| ~6.5 % Spiral Copper Concentrate | ~2.3 % Spiral |
| Tailings |
8K VAT plant : Apart from handling raw material, our plant is equipped with robust infrastructure including a VAT leach tank, solvent extraction facility, electro-winning cell house, and an effluent treatment and tailing storage facility.
8000 TPA Copper Cathodes Produced
Sulphuric Acid Plant (SAP): We produce pristine industrial grade Sulfuric Acid of 98.5% concentration at our environmentally compliant plant, for use in our hydrometallurgy Copper and Cobalt processing facilities. We also supply our product to various local industries.
| 250 TDP Production Conversion Efficiency Capacity |
98.5% Concentration | 98.5% Sulphur |
|---|
