Mowana Mine moves to increase production

Base-metals-mining and exploration company African Copper is restructuring the company to implement a number of strategies that will increase production at its flagship Mowana mine, near Francistown, Botswana.

Newswire Bloomberg reports that African Copper will install a mobile crushing unit and amend its environmental management plan at its Mowana mine to remove bottlenecks hampering the ramp-up to full capacity.

African Copper reopened its Mowana mine in August 2009, following a bail-out by JSE-listed company Zambia Copper Investments. With the bail-out, the company reached encouraging levels of production in October and November 2009, but lower plant availability affected output in December and January.

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