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China firms to fund Congo hydropower plant to lift mining output

China’s Sinohydro and China Railway Group will finance a $660-million hydroelectric plant in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo which is being built to reduce the copper-mining region’s power deficit. Congo is Africa’s largest miner of copper and the 240 MW dam in the town of Busanga will power Sicomines, a nearby copper and cobalt mining joint venture between the Chinese companies and Congolese state miner Gecamines.