Peering into their computer screens in California last year, the data crunchers watched a subterranean fortune come into focus.
What they saw transported them 10,000 miles across the world, to Zambia, and then one more mile straight down into the Earth.
On Thursday, their company, KoBold Metals, informed its business partners that their find is likely the largest copper discovery in more than a decade.
According to their estimates, reviewed by The New York Times, the mine would produce at least 300,000 tons of copper a month once fully operational.
The New York Times also reviewed an independent, third-party assessment of KoBold’s claims, which, while slightly more conservative than KoBold’s own, largely corroborated the size of the deposit.
Persons:
KoBold
Organizations:
KoBold Metals, The New York Times, New York Times
Locations:
California, Zambia