The Sase prospect is a copper-bearing deposit in

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, ...

, Democratic Republic of the Congo, being developed by

Tiger Resources Tiger Resources Limited is an Australia-based mining company with two active copper extraction projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The company was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in May 1997. As of 2011 the company's ma ...

. The Sase prospect lies within the Lupoto concession, about the south of Tiger's Kipoi Mine and to the north of the older Lupoto Mine in the

Kalumines Kalumines is a copper mining property that includes the Kasonta, Lupoto and Niamumenda concessions, with a combined area of . It is about northwest of Lubumbashi in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Start-up TEAL Exploration & ...

concession area. The concession covers an area of . In 2008 Tiger reported that exploratory drilling had found ores with significant grades of copper. Mineralization at the Sase location has been shown on a strike length of and width up to . Maiden resource was planned for release in the first half of 2011. In February 2011, Tiger said it was planning to build a solvent-extraction plant that would process copper ore feed from the Kipoi and Lupoto projects.

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