page_title: Katanga Province
hierarchical_section_title: Katanga Province
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch&#58; Malachit, Beide Seiten ein und derselben Probe: natur und poliert. Fundort: Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga, Demokratische Republik KongoEnglish&#58; Malachite Locality: Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre)Français&#58; Malachite Localité&#160;: Croissant du cuivre du Katanga, Katanga, la République démocratique du Congo (Zaïre)
context_page_description: Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.
  It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997, its official name was Shaba Province.
  Katanga's area encompassed 497,000 square kilometres. Farming and ranching are carried out on the Katanga Plateau. The eastern part of the province is considered to be a rich mining region, which supplies cobalt, copper, tin, radium, uranium, and diamonds. The region's former capital, Lubumbashi, is the second-largest city in the Congo.
context_section_description: Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914.
  It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997 (during the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko when Congo was known as Zaïre), its official name was Shaba Province.
  Katanga's area encompassed 497,000 square kilometres (49,700,000 ha). Farming and ranching are carried out on the Katanga Plateau. The eastern part of the province is considered to be a rich mining region, which supplies cobalt, copper, tin, radium, uranium, and diamonds. The region's former capital, Lubumbashi, is the second-largest city in the Congo.
caption: Malachite specimen, showing the original botryoidal form & a polished face of the opposite half of the specimen. Mines in the vicinity of Kolwezi supply much of the polishing-grade malachite in the world.
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