
The Compagnie du Katanga was a
concession company of the
Congo Free State
''(Work and Progress)
, national_anthem = Vers l'avenir
, capital = Vivi Boma
, currency = Congo Free State franc
, religion = Catholicism (''de facto'')
, leader1 = Leop ...
that engaged in mining in the
Katanga Province
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.
It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, ...
.
History
The company was founded by
Leopold II in 1891 to occupy part of the Free State in order to dissuade a
British
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claim on the land.
It was formed by the
Compagnie du Congo pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (CCCI) and a group of English investors.
The company received 99-year mineral exploitation right on one third of the land and preferential rights for twenty years on the remainder.
The company explored the area and found rich deposits of copper.
In 1899 the company and the Free State government formed the
Comité Special du Katanga (CSK) to administer the whole province, with its own police force.
In many ways the CSK was independent of the administration at Boma and reported directly Brussels.
The CSK hired
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of
Tanganyika Concessions
Tanganyika Concessions Limited (TCL or Tanks) was a British mining and railway company founded by the Scottish engineer and entrepreneur Robert Williams in 1899.
The purpose was to exploit minerals in Northern Rhodesia and in the Congo Free State. ...
(TCL) to prospect for minerals.
In 1906 the ''Compagnie du Katanga'', the CSK and the TCL formed the mining company ''
Union Minière du Haut-Katanga
The ''Union Minière du Haut-Katanga'' (French; literally "Mining Union of Upper-Katanga") was a Belgian mining company (with minority British share) which controlled and operated the mining industry in the copperbelt region in the modern-day ...
'' (UMHK).
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Belgian colonisation in Africa
History of Katanga
1891 establishments in the Congo Free State
Congo Free State
Companies established in 1891
Mining in Katanga Province