KOLWEZI

kōlwĕzˈē, city (1984 pop. 416,122), Katanga province, SE Congo (Kinshasa). It is a center for copper and cobalt mining. There are copper-ore concentration plants, a zinc refinery, and a brewery. Rebels attacked the city in 1978, flooding the mines.

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books on: Kolwezi  - 61 results

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The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa
Book by Bill Berkeley; Perseus Books, 2001
...had been detained shortly after noon in Kolwezi, a mining town about ten hours away by...earlier that evening. We had gone to Kolwezi to investigate a campaign of state-sponsored...the vast Gecamines mining compound in Kolwezi. They said they were acting on orders...
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Peace-Keeping by U.N. Forces, from Suez to the Congo
Book by Arthur Lee Burns, Nina Heathcote; Frederick A. Praeger, 1963
Subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--1960-, United Nations--Armed Forces, United Nations--Congo (Democratic Republic), United Nations--Middle East
...Tshombe from devastating installations in Kolwezi. 136 Above all, Union Miniere on January...police had prepared extensive sabotage at Kolwezi. They appealed to all responsible parties...threat at a press conference to blow up the Kolwezi installations, there were reports that...
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Zaire: Continuity and Political Change in an Oppressive State
Book by Winsome J. Leslie; Westview Press, 1993
Subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Economic Conditions, Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics And Government--1960-1997, Despotism--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History
...himself spent several weeks at the front in Kolwezi to indicate the seriousness of the situation...supplies to Zaire or sent senior officials to Kolwezi or Kinshasa. 4 The United States, however...attack, in that the copper mining town of Kolwezi was actually seized and Europeans as well...
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The Problem of Context
Book by Roy Dilley; Berghahn Books, 1999
Subjects: Context (Linguistics), Cultural Relativism, Ethnology--Methodology, Ethnology--Philosophy
...conversation with the painter Kanyemba Yav at Kolwezi/ Shaba. In the course of discussing...originated in Zimbabwe and had reached the Kolwezi area by 1953. At one point I told him...Bapostolo movement, yes. Self: Here in Kolwezi? Kanyemba: Not here in Kolwezi, I think...
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The New South Africa
Book by Guy Arnold; Macmillan, 2000
Subjects: Democracy--South Africa, South Africa--Politics And Government--1994-
...state-owned mining company Gecamines to mine in the Kolwezi area. This brought it into conflict with the US company...had exploitation rights to the copper tailings in Kolwezi. The Kolwezi mine workings hold about 1.44 million tons of copper...
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journal articles on: Kolwezi  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Katanga Business-Pale Peko Bantu. Notes Sur Deux Moments De Cinema Postcolonial Belge
Journal article by Jeremy Hamers; French Forum, Vol. 35, 2010
Subjects: Documentary filmmakers--Criticism and interpretation, Documentary filmmakers--Works, Documentary films--Criticism and interpretation, Documentary movies--Criticism and interpretation, Katanga Business (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Michel, Thierry--Criticism and interpretation, Michel, Thierry--Works, Pale Peko Bantu Mambo Ayikosake (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Van Paesschen, Bram--Criticism and interpretation, Van Paesschen, Bram--Works
...Absent de limage, un jeune Congolais nous dit en swahili: Kolwezi ou il fait bon vivre. Cest ce quils disaient chez nous. Maintenant...Mainienant je peux regarder les choses a distance. Quand jetais a Kolwezi, non. ... Je navais jamais envisage den partir. Bon...
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Evolution of Neoproterozoic-lower Palaeozoic Lufilian Arc, Central Africa: a New Model Based on Syntectonic Conglomerates
Journal article by Marek Wendorff; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 162, 2005
Subjects: Basins, Evolution, Models, Rocks, Sediments
...of the Lufilian arc (Fig. 2), from Mufulira in Zambia to Kolwezi in the DRC (Cailteux et al. 1994). Evidence that the breccias...Fig. 3a). Re-examination of these fragmental rocks near Kolwezi indicates that they are undeformed debris-flow conglomerates...
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Narrating Ethnic Conflict in Zairian Literature
Journal article by Janice Spleth; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 29, 1998
Subjects: Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa
...site of rebellion in 1978 when members of the former Katanga secessionist movement returned to the copper-mining town of Kolwezi only to be repulsed by a combination of government and international forces. The narrator is a nun, an educated woman who...
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An African Rapid-deployment Force
Journal article by McGill Alexander; Military Review, Vol. 77, 1997
Subjects: Africa, Armed forces, Military deployment
...Swazi government. During the 1978 attempt at secession by the Zairese province of Shaba, French paratroopers jumped in at Kolwezi to rescue hostages and repel the rebels.4 In many former French colonies in Central Africa, French paratroopers and the...
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Zaire at the End of a Reign
Journal article by Colette Braeckman; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1997
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...chief of staff, General Marc Mahele Lieko Bokungu, is a veteran of all the wars in the region between 1978 (when he retook Kolwezi alongside the French) and the Rwanda war in 1990, when he was sent into the front line against the Patriotic Front. His...


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magazine articles on: Kolwezi  - 16 results

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Congo: Business as Usual?
Magazine article by Antoine Lokongo; New African, June 2001
Subjects: Africa--Economic aspects, Kabila, Joseph--Political activity, Kabila, Laurent--Political activity, Mining industry--Political aspects, Mining law--Interpretation and construction, Presidents (Government)--Political activity, Presidents--Political activity
...mine copper and cobalt in Kasomba and Kolwezi respectively. At the time, according...200m to extract copper and cobalt in Kolwezi (Katanga Province); (second) a project...joint venture to develop the Kipushi and Kolwezi copper and cobalt tailings in partnership...
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The Strange Death of Dag Hammarskjold
Magazine article by Matthew Hughes; History Today, Vol. 51, October 2001
Subjects: Aircraft accidents--Zambia, Hammarskjold, Dag--Biography, United Nations--Officials and employees
...based at the airbase at the town of Kolwezi in Katanga, had been in command of all...to re-direct it to follow Beukels to Kolwezi or Kamina in Katanga -- it is not clear...that occurred when the power group of Kolwezi decided to direct Hammarskjolds plane...
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Fools Rush in ... and Out?
Magazine article by Francois Misser; African Business, March 1998
Subjects: Congo (Kinshasa)--Contracts, Mining industry--Contracts
...the contract for the exploitation of the Kolwezi copper and cobalt tailings signed between...with mining majors on the development of Kolwezi West Group area, which contains about...Metals Co. The actual development of the Kolwezi West Group project might take some time...
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Fools Rush In[ldots
Magazine article by Francois Misser; March 1998
Subjects: Kabila, Laurent
...the contract for the exploitation of the Kolwezi copper and cobalt tailings signed between...with mining majors on the development of Kolwezi West Group area, which contains about...Metals Co. The actual development of the Kolwezi West Group project might take some time...
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Copper Boosts Zambia Growth Rates: Currently, the Falling Dollar Is Supporting Mineral Prices. the Rally of the Bellwether Red Metal, Copper, Is Driven by Speculation Based on Optimism about the Recovery in US and Elsewhere, Especially China. M J Morgan Reports
Magazine article by M.J. Morgan; African Business, February 2010
Subjects: Copper (Metal)--Prices and rates, Copper (Metal)--Production data, Copper (Metal)--Supply and demand, Copper industry--Growth, Copper industry--Prices and rates, Copper industry--Production data, Copper--Prices and rates, Copper--Production data, Copper--Supply and demand, Shanghai, China
...which is expected to yield 75,000t this year and over each of the next few years. The company is also opening a mine at Kolwezi in DRC this year which it is thought will produce 35,000t this year rising up to 70,000t p.a. over its 22-year life...
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newspaper articles on: Kolwezi  - 10 results

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Congo Dispute Turns Political; City FOCUS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 22, 2011
Subjects: Eurasian Natural Resources Corp., Mineral industry, Mining industry
...with the World Bank, was revoked. The Kolwezi licence - in which FQM had already invested...have a connection to mining - that the Kolwezi licence was transferred to ENRC. Whats...But one thing is not in dispute: while Kolwezi collects rainwater, the worlds most poverty...
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Congo Deal May Fire ENRC Stock; MARKET REPORT
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 24, 2010
Subjects: Copper industry, Mineral industry, Mining industry, Stock markets
...likely to be awarded the licence for the Kolwezi copper mine in the Democratic Republic...Exchange, is likely to be awarded the Kolwezi licence. Dont expect First Quantum to...the government decision to take away the Kolwezi licence have come to nothing. Most of...
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Congo Deal May Fire ENRC Stock; MARKET REPORT
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 24, 2010
Subjects: Copper industry, Mineral industry, Mining industry, Stock markets
...likely to be awarded the licence for the Kolwezi copper mine in the Democratic Republic...Exchange, is likely to be awarded the Kolwezi licence. Dont expect First Quantum to...the government decision to take away the Kolwezi licence have come to nothing. Most of...
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How Olisa Played Straight Bat in ENRC Row; the City INTERVIEW
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 1, 2011
Subjects: Sykes, Richard
...Quantum Minerals over the licence to dig the Kolwezi mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo...insists the problem was never with the Kolwezi transaction. It began, he says, with...the press and investors questioned the Kolwezi deal, the tension left the firm hamstrung...
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Africa's New Mining Rush City; City FOCUS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 1, 2006
...London, bought Adastra Minerals in order to gain control of its Kolwezi copper-cobalt project in Katanga. At the top end of the...Minerals in a pounds sterling131m deal earlier this year for its Kolwezi copper-cobalt tailings project in Katanga, Congo. . Mwana...
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encyclopedia articles on: Kolwezi  - 2 results

 
 
1.
Kolwezi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KOLWEZI kolwez e, city (1984 pop. 416,122), Katanga province, SE Congo (Kinshasa). It is a center for copper and cobalt mining...
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Congo, Democratic Republic of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Zambia). In addition to Kinshasa, the major urban areas include Boma , Bukavu , Kalemie , Kamina , Kananga , Kisangani , Kolwezi , Likasi , Lubumbashi , Matadi , Mbandaka , and Mbuji-Mayi . The population of Congo comprises approximately 200 ethnic groups...


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