Likasi, formerly Jadotville, city in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire), in Katanga Region. Likasi is a road and rail junction and a center for copper and cobalt mining and processing. It also has railroad repair shops and plants producing chemicals, cement, explosives, paints and varnishes, insecticides, and perfumes. Other materials processed include zinc, lime, and cadmium. Shinkolobwe, to the southwest, is the center of a uranium- and radium-mining industry. Power is derived from the large installations at Mwadingusha, on the Lufira River, to the northeast. Likasi is the site of a junior college and of a geological museum. Growing rapidly after the first metal casting in 1911, the city served as capital of Sud-Katanga Province in the 1960s. Until 1966 it was called Jadotville. Population (1985) 194,000.Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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