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Kipushi
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Kipushi is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kipushi
Kipushi
Location in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Coordinates: 11°46′01″S 27°13′59″E / 11.76694°S 27.23306°E / -11.76694; 27.23306
CountryKipushi DR Congo
ProvinceHaut-Katanga
TerritoryKipushi
Elevation
1,329 m (4,360 ft)
Population
 (2012)
 • Total132,861
Time zoneUTC+2 (Central Africa Time)
ClimateCwa
A day in Kipushi.

Kipushi is a town in Haut-Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies 35 km southwest of the city of Lubumbashi, very close to the border with Zambia, at an altitude of 1329 m (4363 ft).[1] The main economic activity of the town is mining. Kipushi is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sakania–Kipushi.

  1. ^ National Geographic Atlas of the World: Revised Sixth Edition, National Geographic Society, 1992

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mining. Kipushi is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sakania–Kipushi. Kipushi has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cwa). The Kipushi Mine (formerly...

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Kipushi Mine

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Kafue River

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 • location Zambian border with the Democratic Republic of Congo northwest of Kipushi, North-Western Province, Zambia  • coordinates 11°36′S 27°12′E / 11.600°S...

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publicly known. Beginning as a large open pit copper mine in 1924, the Kipushi Mine eventually became an underground producer of zinc, germanium, and...

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lubumbashi

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establish the Apostolic Prefecture of Upper Luapula (now its suffragan Sakania–Kipushi) 22 March 1932: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Katanga, still exempt...

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Congo in Four Acts

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re-establish the national moral code. "After the Mine" depicts life in Kipushi, a mining town where the soil is contaminated. The film was co-directed...

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Jacques Masangu

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Copper metallurgy in Africa

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in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Kansanshi mine in Zambia and Kipushi mine in the DRC date to between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Sites...

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Mineral industry of Africa

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in Namibia by 2010. In Congo (Kinshasa), the proposed reopening of the Kipushi Mine and the reprocessing of zinc and germanium tailings near Kolwezi could...

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List of airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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42°E / -8.20; 26.42 (Kipamba) Katanga Kipushi 121,831 11°46′S 27°15′E / 11.76°S 27.25°E / -11.76; 27.25 (Kipushi) Katanga Kiri 14,033 1°27′S 19°00′E...

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