ZAMBIA’S mineral portfolio has received a major boost thanks to the discovery of the largest copper deposits ever recorded in the country. In an official statement posted on the social media site X, on February 5, KoBold, an American startup backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, announced the discovery of vast copper deposits at their Mingomba mine in northern Zambia. “Mingomba will be one of the world’s biggest high-grade, large copper mines. It is Kakula-scale in size and the core of it is >5% copper,” KoBold President Josh Goldman shared in the post. He draws a correlation to the…