Union Minière du Haut Katanga  

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The Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (French; literally "Mining Union of Upper-Katanga"), often abbreviated to Union Minière or UMHK, was an Anglo-Belgian mining company which operated in the copperbelt in the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1906 and 1966.

Created in 1906, the UMHK was founded as a joint venture by the Société Générale de Belgique, the Comité Spécial du Katanga and Tanganyika Concessions Ltd. With the support of the colonial state, the company was allocated a Template:Convert concession in Katanga.

UMHK was part of a powerful group of global copper producers. Its primary product was copper, but it also produced tin, cobalt, radium, uranium, zinc, cadmium, germanium, manganese, silver, and gold. By the start of World War II, the Société Générale controlled 70% of the Congolese economy.

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