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Cobalt

Tenke Fungurume

One of the world's largest cobalt producers, owned by a Chinese group.

Material
Cobalt
Stage
Mine
Place
Lualaba, DR Congo
Operator
CMOC (80%), Gécamines (20%)
Coordinates
10.57° S, 26.20° E
Satellite picture of Tenke Fungurume
Sentinel-2 true colour, 11 Oct 2026, about 7.0 km across. Vegetation lost since 18 Sep 2018: about 776 ha. Copernicus Sentinel-2 data via Microsoft Planetary Computer.

Seen from orbit

Heat
0 of the last 7 days and 4 of the last 30 had furnace-hot pixels within 6 km (NASA FIRMS).
Surface temperature
Landsat, 26 Sep 2026: typical ground 34.4 °C; 2.5 ha more than 8 °C warmer than the land around it; hottest spot 10.4 °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

  • Produced 209,120 t of copper and 18,501 t of cobalt in 2021
  • The DR Congo mined about 220,000 of the world's 290,000 t of cobalt in 2024 (USGS)

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