RE:RE:Comparison of Kamoa-Kukula with Tenke FungurumeSpacegimp,
Illegal artisanal mining is a major problem in Congo. The desperate miners take a huge risk since mine police often use deadly force. Clearly it would be easier to steal from an open pit than an underground mine. From a resource calculation perspective, the poorly equipped artisanal miners can't make much of a dent in the 80 billion lb copper equivalent resource at Tenke Fungurume. Here is a good article on the subject for those who are interested from mining-technology.com
https://www.mining-technology.com/features/featuremining-the-drc-doing-business-in-the-worlds-second-least-developed-country-4380854/