The Kipoi Mine (French: La mine de Kipoi) is a copper mine in Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with an inferred 306,000 tonnes of copper in high-grade ore. [1]

The Kipoi Mining Licence covers an area of 55sq km and contains a 12km-long extensively copper-cobalt mineralised segment (ecaille) of Upper Roan (R2, R4) sediments. The project hosts five known copper deposits: Kipoi Central, Kipoi North, Kileba, Judeira and Kaminafitwe.

Kipoi mining operation was placed on care and maintenance in April 2020 as a result of the impact of Covid-19. Tiger commenced a process for its sale and/or recapitalisation, including for its DRC subsidiaries and the Kipoi Project.

6 days ago · DRC Battle to take over Kipoi copper operator Tiger Resources settled at last. An Australian court has dismissed the case made by Mauritian firm Kipoi Holdings against Chinese firm Yingkou Yangzhou's proposed takeover of Tiger Resources, the bankrupt operator of the Katanga copper mine Kipoi.

4 days ago · An Australian court has dismissed the case made by Mauritian firm Kipoi Holdings against Chinese firm Yingkou Yangzhou's proposed takeover of Tiger Resources, the bankrupt operator of the Katanga copper mine Kipoi.

Mar 15, 2016 · ASX-listed junior copper producer Tiger Resources initiated a debottlenecking process in February that will enable the company to unlock capacity within the processing plant at its Kipoi copper project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

4 days ago · According to our information, Chinese firm Sinomine Resource Exploration Co has reportedly struck up talks with Australian junior Tiger Resources with the view to buy stakes in the Kipoi copper mine located north of Lubumbashi in Congo-K.

The Kipoi Mine has an inferred 306,000 tonnes of copper in high-grade ore. It is a joint venture between Tiger Resources (60%) and the state-owned Gécamines (40%). It was planned to start generating revenue in 2011. [2] Tiger invested more than $60 million to start the mine.

The IFC project objectives are to increase 1) mine production from 25,000 tons of copper annually to 32,500 tons annually and 2) Kipoi’s infrastructure capacity.

The initial phase of solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX-EW) at the Kipoi project has been designed to process approximately 3.5 million tpa of copper-bearing ore and to produce 25,000 tpa of London Metal Exchange (LME) Grade A copper cathode.