Copper and cobalt and other mineral resources are very rich, according to the latest figures released by the state in December 1998, its main mineral reserves are: 75 million tons of copper, 45 million tons of cobalt, 7 million tons of zinc, 7 million tons of manganese, 1 million tons of iron, 450,000 tons of tin, 600 tons, 1 diamond900 million carats. The main mineral resources of Katanga Province are copper and cobalt, followed by lead, zinc, uranium, tin, manganese, gold, diamond, and a small amount of germanium (associated with lead-zinc ore), nickel, iron, etc.
Copper-cobalt resources are concentrated in the Kolwezi region (29.8 million tonnes of copper and 1.78 million tonnes of cobalt), followed by the Tenke-Fungurume region (9.94 million tonnes of copper and 700,000 tonnes of cobalt), which account for more than 75% of Katanga's resources (according to Gecamines statistics in 1997). Other mining areas such as Kalkundi, Kakanda, Kambove, Rvashi, Btoile, Lopot, Kinsende, Kipvshi, **VRV, Shin**Lobuwe, Miningi, Menda, Numbuluwa, etc., all have small and medium-sized copper-cobalt deposits.
Copper-cobalt deposits are mainly distributed in a north-west direction along Lubumbashi-Luishia-Likasi--Kumbove-Funggulume-Tenke--Kalukundi-Kolwezi, from south-east to north-west, and the copper ore grade is relatively stable with little change, and the cobalt ore grade has an increasing trend.
The Kimpe copper diamond deposit is located in the southeast of the Katanga Arc Copper Diamond Belt, which is located in the southeastern part of the DRC, in the middle of the Zambia-DRC Copper Belt, and is part of the eastern section of the Lufilian Arc Tectonic Belt in Central Africa. The Lufili Arc Tectonic Belt is a copper, cobalt, nickel, lead and zinc polymetallic metallogenic belt with a length of about 500 km and a width of 80 km from the eastern part of the Zambia-Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) border to the western Zambia-Angola border. There are a number of world-class large-scale layered copper (cobalt) deposits in the belt, such as Musonoi, Likasi, etc., and different deposits occur in different parts of regional large-scale thrust structures, which are obviously controlled by fault structures and are relatively rich in minerals on both sides of secondary faults. However, there are differences in the type of mineralization, the type of mineralization, and the intensity of crustal activity after mineralization. Among them, the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is in the plateau area of the earth's crustal uplift, and the ore body is shallow buried, mainly copper-cobalt oxide ore, and a small part is primary copper-cobalt sulfide deposits. Some ore bodies in Zambia are deeply buried, dominated by primary copper (cobalt) sulphide deposits.