Sheets of copper cathode are pictured at BHP Billiton's Escondida, - fILE PIC
MINING investors are stampeding back into a region many had seemed determined to leave.
Straddling the border of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, a vast forested area roughly the size of Portugal contains one of the world’s richest caches of minerals: copper for wires and cables, and cobalt for rechargeable batteries.
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