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Glencore’s Katanga Mining KOV pit suffers geotechnical failure, 7 people missing

Katanga Mining, Glencore’s DRC-focused copper/cobalt company, has reported seven personnel missing following a geotechnical failure on the north wall of its KOV open pit.
The failure, which occurred at 06h00 local time in 8 March 2016, occurred while those seven people were working on the on-going dewatering of the pit in the vicinity of the failure Katanga Mining states.
In addition, an unknown amount of damage to the dewatering infrastructure in the pit is expected to have occurred.

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