Kambove
Sign in to savethumb|Libethenite crystals to 3 mm from Kambove. Specimen size: 8.0 x 4.6 x 3.3 cm. Kambove is a town in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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- Locality
- Kambove
- Region
- Haut-Katanga
- Country
- République démocratique du Congo
- Population
- 99,884
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- Instance of
- city
- Population
- +31329
- Elevation
- +1392
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- Rodger Bumpass
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thumb|Libethenite crystals to 3 mm from Kambove. Specimen size: 8.0 x 4.6 x 3.3 cm. Kambove is a town in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kambove lies at an altitude of 1457m (4783 ft). Economic activity in the area includes cobalt processing. Kambove is the center of the Kambove mines region. Gécamines, a state-owned mining company, owns the Kamoya central, Kamoya south, Shangolowe and Kamfundwa mines. Ore from these mines is transported to the concentrator at Kambove for extraction of copper and cobalt.