Mining Supplies & Consumables in Solwezi, North-Western Province

Solwezi is the smallest of the four sites and the most specific. It exists for one reason: the mines around Kalumbila, Lumwana and Solwezi itself are several hours from Kitwe, and consumable supply that depends on that drive is consumable supply that fails at the wrong moment. The depot holds and forwards the lines that cannot wait.

The requirement here is consumable and PPE-led rather than equipment-led. Welding consumables for maintenance and fabrication, abrasives, gas cutting equipment, tooling, and PPE in the quantities a mine and its contractors get through. Anything larger — tyre handling, attachments, plant — is quoted through Kitwe and Nelspruit and delivered in.

Mwinilunga, Kasempa and the western side of Chingola are reached from here as well. Where a requirement is on a shutdown scope, the quantities are set against the scope and confirmed in writing before it starts, because North-Western Province is not somewhere a shortfall can be corrected the same afternoon.