Mine disruptions bring forward the copper supply vulnerability as recycling falls behind demand
The year 2025 has proven to be fraught with accidents and disruptions at major copper mines. The Kamoa-Kakula complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the world’s top five copper projects, owned by China’s Zijin and Canada’s Ivanhoe, has encountered a series of technical difficulties, which began with seismic activity and escalated into […]