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Power shortage holding back DR Congo's mining sector
Published Sun, Jun 21, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Lubumbashi, DR Congo
THE minerals in the south-eastern Katanga region represent potential riches for the Democratic Republic of Congo, but a lack of electricity is preventing the country from fully exploiting them.
In Katanga's regional capital Lubumbashi, power cuts regularly shut down the furnace at the STL factory that extracts cobalt, copper and zinc oxide from a nearby mountain of slag.
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