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A dark cloud hangs over Zambia again after the passing of its fifth President Michael Chilufya Sata in London on October 28. The late Sata becomes the second president to die in office, after the cold hand of death robbed the copper-rich Southern African country of its leader Levy Patrick …

By Hicks Sikazwe Just four days after Zambia, Africa’s largest copper producer celebrated 50 years of independence from Britain, its president, Michael Chilufya Sata died at King Edward VII hospital in London, becoming the second country’s head of state to die in office within six years. Locally known as king …

In order to avoid the risk that Vedanta Resources- owned mining firm Konkola Copper Mines might use its liquid assets to frustrate U& M Zambia’s efforts to enforce an arbitration award a London Court has maintained that the freeze on the firms global assets be sustained. This matter came up …

Murray & Roberts Cementation Zambia has reported the completion of the sinking of the Synclinorium Shaft project in Kitwe, Zambia for its client Mopani Copper Mines (MCM). “The last blast of the Main shaft took place on 30 September 2014 with the shaft at a final depth of 1 280.85 m …

Fluid conveyance company The Rare Group has been awarded a contract to supply the first of two phases of a new slurry pipeline at a copper mining company operating in Zambia. Rare will supply and install 3 175m of 610 mm Nominal Bore (NB) steel pipelined with a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) …

Actress and new mum Mila Kunis has collaborated with Gemfields and Italian Jeweller Marina B in creating a Zambian emerald ring that will honor mother hood as well as raise funds for Lufwanyama`s Nkana Health Centre. Gemfields Chief Executive Officer Ian Harebottle says as leading suppliers of responsibly sourced Gemstones, …

Zambia has warned mining companies against taking unilateral decisions to lay off workers on the pretext of seeking recourse to the delayed over US$600 million Value Added Tax refunds. Government’s warning comes in the wake of Glencore owned Kabwe Sable zinc mine laying off 170 workers, of which 158 are …

Zambia’s plans to more than triple royalties for some mines are “entirely unsustainable” and will cause several operations in Africa’s second-largest copper producer to shut down, an industry lobby group said. “Unviable operations will have to stop operating and of course the subsequent loss of jobs is inevitable,” Jackson Sikamo, …

Zambia’s largest miner First Quantum are up in arms against the revised mineral royalty taxes saying the proposal to review the regime will have devastating impacts on the Country’s Mining Sector and capital investments as well as new projects. Recently, the mining company announced plans to put aside its planned …

In a bid to set a new global industry standard in highly reliable Ultrasonic gas leak detection, the MSA has introduced the new Gassonic Observer-I Ultrasonic Gas Leak Detector with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) intelligence. MSA Africa Fixed Gas and Flame Detection product manager Robbie Taitz said in a statement …