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Ivanhoe Mines Announces First Anode Production from Kamoa-Kakula Copper Smelter
Kamoa-Kakula smelter is Africa's largest copper smelter with a capacity of 500,000 tonnes of copper per annumKamoa-Kakula 2026 sales set to exceed production...
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