Tim
Yes the club has wonderful balance and it comes with povidence. It was was owned by Raymond Brooks a copper miner from Rhodesia.
Mufulira is situated in the Copperbelt of Zambia, and it is the largest underground copper mine in Africa. The Copperbelt is the most concentrated copper-producing area in the world, although fifty years ago it was wild and trackless. Now in an area thirty miles wide and seventy miles long there are eight producing mines, namely Mufulira, Rokana, Chingola, Bwana Mkubwa, Chambishi, Chibuluma, Konkola and Luanshya.
Mufulira's history began in June 1925 when two prospectors named Moir and Bell were sent by Mr. Raymond Brooks, who was then in charge of all the prospecting for two major companies, to work up the west side of the Kafue River to the Congo Border and then come back down it again along the other bank. They found nothing on the way up but when coming back down they camped by a stream called the Mufulira, and there they found some peat moss stained with malachite. They sent some of this moss to Mr. Brooks and a short time later they discovered an outcrop, which also showed meager copper-carbonate stain. A sample of this was also sent to Brook, but unfortunately it did not amount to very much. Intact it was not until five years later in 1928 that this outcrop was more thoroughly investigated by geologists and the vast riches of Mufulira were revealed.
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