Mutanda
A swing producer: when Glencore idled it in 2019, a large share of world cobalt supply went offline.
- Material
- Cobalt
- Stage
- Mine
- Place
- Lualaba, near Kolwezi, DR Congo
- Operator
- Glencore
- Coordinates
- 10.79° S, 25.80° E (approximate)
Seen from orbit
- Heat
- 1 of the last 7 days and 3 of the last 30 had furnace-hot pixels within 6 km (NASA FIRMS).
- Surface temperature
- Landsat, 26 Sep 2026: typical ground 30.6 °C; 0.4 ha more than 8 °C warmer than the land around it; hottest spot 8.5 °C above it.
- Radar
- Latest Sentinel-1 radar picture: 28 Oct 2026.
Signals show activity, not output. They are measured automatically and can be affected by weather, terrain and fires.
Facts
- About 40 km south-east of Kolwezi
- Produced 27,300 t of cobalt in 2018
- Closed in November 2019, with a restart announced for 2022