Ingot
- Description
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Once the copper has been mined, the impurities are removed. The refined copper is then smelted into smaller manageable bars. The “NK” on the surface stand for Nkana, which is a mine in Kitwe, modern day Zambia.
Since 1932, the Nkana mine has produced about 6 million tons of copper. Is one of the global producers of copper. Zambia also mines lead, iron-ore, silver, gold and precious stones.
This bar was donated in October 2005 by a local resident who was a farmer in Northern Rhodesia during the 1950s and 60s.
L. 94 x W. 62 H. 36 mm - Accession Loan No.
- 601/2005/3
- Collection Class
- Currency
- Common Name
- ingot
- Simple Name
- ingot
- Full Name
- blister copper ingot
- Dimensions
- whole length 94 mm; whole W 62 mm; whole H 36 mm
- Production Year High
- 1957
- Production Town
- Nkana mine
- Production County
- Kitwe region
- Production Country
- Zambia
- Production Area Region
- East Africa
- Production Continent
- Africa
- Family Group
- Function Detail
- This copper blister relates to thirty copper bowls made at the mine to be presented to the late Queen Mother who visited in the 1950s. There is a copper bowl associated with this blister that has been on loan and displayed from Mr MacDonald since 2005. The bowl is in the ethnography store.
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Collection Continent
- Africa
