Part of the Nchanga copper mine in Zambia collapsed during the morning of Wednesday July 15, as operator Konkola Copper Mines had earlier predicted that it would.
The cave-in happened at 8:30am local time, affecting 3 million tonnes of material in an area 370 metres around the epicenter of failure in the open-pit Nchanga mine, KCM said on Wednesday.Photos now showed that the sloughing materials have distorted water pipes which help to carry water to...