Kipoi Overview

The Kipoi Project is located 75km northwest of Lubumbashi, the capital of Katanga Province, in the central part of the Katangan Copper belt.  

We commenced production at Kipoi in April 2011 after receiving all the necessary funding and approval requirements. The first shipments of copper concentrate from the site followed on 15 June 2011. Tiger’s production, which uses a heavy media separation (HMS) plant, is tracking well to reach its targeted throughput level of 75,000 tonnes a month, with ore-feed throughput in excess of its nameplate design capacity of 2500 tonnes a day.

Kipoi 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.

The project is located close to Lubumbashi, which has an international airport and is linked by a network of roads to the major ports of Dares Salaam in Tanzania and Durban in South Africa.

Local infrastructure is excellent. High-voltage power lines off the national grid and the Lubumbashi-Likasi railway line pass through the project area.

In March 2008 Cube Consulting completed a maiden Inferred resource estimate at Kipoi Central of 13.4Mt at 3.3% Cu and 0.1% Co for 439,000 tonnes of contained copper and 20,000 tonnes of cobalt. This included a high-grade component, upgraded to a Measured and Indicated Resource, of 2.86Mt at 8.1% Cu containing 230,000 tonnes of copper.

In May 2010, Tiger increased its resource at Kipoi Central to 637,000 tonnes of copper , of which 535,000 tonnes was classified as Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources.

Tiger has a 60% interest in the Kipoi project. The remaining 40% interest in is held by La Générale des Carrière et des Mines (“Gécamines”), a DRC State-controlled company.