Mining Heritage Route: Likasi → Kolwezi

The Mining Heritage Route from Likasi to Kolwezi traces one of Africa's most important mineral corridors, revealing how copper, cobalt, and strategic minerals shaped cities, labor systems, economies, and now the global energy transition. This route connects Likasi in Haut-Katanga Province to Kolwezi in Lualaba Province, passing through historic mining towns, industrial infrastructure, and living communities. Likasi represents the birth of large-scale industrial mining in southern Congo with colonial urban planning and labor systems. Kolwezi stands at the center of the world's cobalt supply and represents the present and future of mining in Africa.