
Some of the products / services you can expect to see on the day:
Updated: (12/09/2023)
- Abrasive manufacturer
- Automatic fire suppression system for all engine compartments
- Bearings, valves, vee belts, valve repairs, asset management, technical services and pumps
- Collision avoidance (PDS)
- Conveyor belt tracking rollers, scrapers, skirting rubber, safety roller guards and impact beds
- Crushing, screening and materials handling
- Design and manufacture standard and custom tools for the industrial and “do it yourself” markets
- Design and supply of process equipment
- Direct hydraulic drives
- Distributors of pumps, motors, air compressors, controls and drives
- Electrical carbon brush and switchgear manufacturer
- Electrical, pumps, mechanical and engineering services
- Engineering
- Engineering design and fabrication, wear solutions and industrial 3D printing
- Fluid engineering – specialising in pumping, agitation, mixing, separation and purification technologies for fluids of all types
- Head to toe protection – on-site PPE stores
- Heavy duty coatings, decorative, industrial and automotive
- Heavy duty machines
- Importers and distributors of pumps in southern Africa
- Industrial light fittings
- Industrial lighting and LED experts
- Instrumentation and condition monitoring
- Laboratory equipment supplier
- Machine control
- Manufacturer and OEM of RNE vertical spindle pumps and all steel motors for mines, chemical, plant and slurry application
- Manufacturer of conveyor idlers, frames, belt clamps and pulley bagging
- Manufacturer of engine protective systems and CNC machining services
- Manufacturers and distributors of electrical cables and wires
- Market leaders in industrial heat-transfer products
- Material handling equipment supplier
- Materials handling, wear solutions, flow and industrial, instrumentation, power generation and geotechnical monitoring systems
- Mechanical engineers, precision machining, fabrication, hydraulics and pneumatics
- Mining business intelligence
- Motor vehicle dealership
- Pipes
- Power tool accessories
- PP woven packaging, acrylic yarn, knitwear, security wear and blankets
- Pumps, pump repairs and pump rental
- Pumps, valves and filter supplier to the mines
- Renault car dealer
- Safety equipment, electric motors, civil works, fire solutions, metal fabrication, refrigeration services, labour hire and NDT management
- Specialist HDPE lined steel pipe and fitting suppliers and support services in thermoplastic lined solutions
- Specialists in aftermarket earthmoving
- Supplier of crusher spare parts and equipment
- Supplier of hoses, conveyor belts, rubber sheeting, rubber bellows and product accessories
- Supplier of safety and firefighting equipment
- Supplier partner of transformers and motors
- Supply and servicing of equipment to mining and allied industries – pumps, electrical, heavy equipment, sulphuric and solution and mechanical
- Training and learnerships
- Underground and open pit electrical plug connectors
- Underground mining services and supply
- Valves, pumps, pipes and fittings, valve and pump repairs
- Weighing equipment and fuel management systems
Background
Located 150km west of Solwezi in the North Western Province of Zambia is Kalumbila, also known as Sentinel Mine. The mine, owned by Canadian company First Quantum Minerals since 2010, has one of the largest reserves of copper in the world, estimated at one billion tonnes of ore grading 0.51% copper. The plant has the capacity to treat 55 million tonnes of ore to produce 300,000 tonnes of copper per annum and represents US$2.1 billion of investment – Zambia’s largest infrastructure investment since the Kariba Dam was constructed in 1959.
The operation takes the form of a large open pit mine, with copper ore extracted using conventional methods with large scale heavy equipment such as electric-powered face shovels with 57m3 buckets and hydraulic excavators working together with a fleet of ultraclass haul trucks. Crushing takes place in the pit using mobile gyratory crushers, which are fed into secondary crushers and then sent to massive 44 foot length 22 megawatt Ball mills, some of the largest of their type in the world.
In addition to Sentinel Mine is the Enterprise nickel project, also owned by First Quantum Minerals. As the project is located a mere 12km from Sentinel it is expected that the mine would be low-cost as it would be able to make use of the existing infrastructure via integration with the Sentinel copper circuit to produce copper when not producing nickel.
Another significant operation in the area is Lumwana Mine, also an open pit mine and located about 100 kilometers west of Solwezi. The mine consists of two open pits, Malundwe and Chimiwungo, and is mined by conventional truck and shovel method. Ore is treated through a conventional sulphide flotation plant producing copper concentrate for smelting. The mine has about 207.6 million tonnes of remaining ore reserves.
Visitors
Name of Operation | Type of Operation | Owner of Operation | Commodity |
Sentinal Copper Mine | Opencast | First Quantum Minerals | Copper |
Lumwana Copper Mine | Opencast | Barrick Corporation | Copper |
Exhibitors we would like to see:
Exhibitors at all three Zambian expos should include companies that supply equipment or products to the copper mines, or that supply equipment or products that can be used in the copper mining process. Zambia is one of Africa’s biggest copper producers, so if you’re involved in that business, this is the expo for you. Products and services in demand in the area include PPE suppliers, fuel meter calibration, mill liners, OEM suppliers of bearings and filters, survey equipment, industrial lighting, cleaning chemicals and abrasives, oil filtration and purification and pump equipment.
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