Location

Lumwana is located in Zambia's Mwinilunga District

Mwinilunga District

Mwinilunga District is a district of Zambia, located in Northwestern Province. The capital lies at Mwinilunga. As of the 2000 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 117,505 people.-References:...

, Northwest Province. It is located approximately 96 kilometres (59.7 mi), by road, east of Mwinilunga

Mwinilunga

Mwinilunga is a town in the North-Western Province of Zambia and headquarters of a district of that name. It lies on the West Lunga River, not far from the borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.- Overview :...

, where the district headquarters are located, along the T5 Highway. This location lies approximately 660 kilometres (410.1 mi), by road, northwest of Lusaka

Lusaka

Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is located in the southern part of the central plateau, at an elevation of about 1,300 metres . It has a population of about 1.7 million . It is a commercial centre as well as the centre of government, and the four main highways of Zambia head...

, the capital of Zambia and the largest city in that country.

History

Prior to 1999, Lumwana was a rural village. In 1999, Equinox Minerals Limited acquired the nearby Lumwana Copper Mine. Over the next ten (10) years, working with its Zambian subsidiary, Lumwana Mining Company Limited, Equinox carried out feasibility studies, sourced financing and constructed the present infrastructure. The mine was commissioned in December 2008 and is the largest employer in the town. In addition to copper

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...

, the mine also produces cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. It is found naturally only in chemically combined form. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal....

 and uranium

Uranium

Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table, with atomic number 92. It is assigned the chemical symbol U. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons...

. An economic development zone, called Lumwana Multi-Facility Economic Zone (LMFEZ), is being developed around the mining operations, to include among others; manufacturing, agroprocessing, hotels and resorts.

Population

The population of Lumwana was estimated at less than 1,000 in 1999. With 1,000 new homes constructed in the town since then, it is estimated that the population of the town in 2010, was approximately 5,000.

Landmarks

The landmarks within the town of Lumwana or close to its borders include the following:

• The offices of Lumwana Town Council
• Lumwana Farmers Market - The largest source of fresh produce in the town.
• Lumwana Copper Mine - A private copper mine that employs over 3,800 people, administered by Equinox Minerals Limited and its subsidiary Lumwana Mining Company Limited.
• A branch of Investrust Bank
  Investrust Bank
  Investrust Bank Plc., commonly known as Investrust Bank, is a is a commercial bank in Zambia. It is one of the eighteen licensed commercial banks in the country.-Overview:, Investrust Bank was a medium-sized financial services provider in Zambia...
  
   - A medium-sized commercial bank, one of the eighteen (18) that are licensed in Zambia.

External links

• Map Showing Lumwana at Google Maps
• Profile At Infomine.com
• Planning of Central Business District In Progress

See also

• Lusaka
  Lusaka
  Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is located in the southern part of the central plateau, at an elevation of about 1,300 metres . It has a population of about 1.7 million . It is a commercial centre as well as the centre of government, and the four main highways of Zambia head...
  
  
• Mwinilunga
  Mwinilunga
  Mwinilunga is a town in the North-Western Province of Zambia and headquarters of a district of that name. It lies on the West Lunga River, not far from the borders with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.- Overview :...
  
  
• Mwinilunga District
  Mwinilunga District
  Mwinilunga District is a district of Zambia, located in Northwestern Province. The capital lies at Mwinilunga. As of the 2000 Zambian Census, the district had a population of 117,505 people.-References:...
  
  
• Solwezi
  Solwezi
  Solwezi is the capital of the North Western Province of Zambia. Solwezi has approximately 65,000 inhabitants at an elevation of 1235 m above sea level...
  
  
• Northwestern Province, Zambia