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African countries want to standardize policies in the mining sectors to make real returns for their respective citizens, the Zambia Daily Mail reported. Plans are underway by African countries, blessed with mineral wealth, to harmonized and standardise policies that will attract investors and enable affected countries to maximize profits from …

Zambia, Africa’s top copper producer, in its quest to diversify from traditional production of the red metal, has mapped and identified over 50 percent of the mineral potential areas, local media reported. The exploration undertaken since last year has seen 52 potential mineral rich areas mapped after explorations by the …

COPPERBELT and Northern Western provinces have for long been known to be Zambia’s mineral lifelines, but, recent discovery of similar and vast reserves in two of the country’s provinces, has cheered the Government. Recently, Copperbelt was renowned to be Zambia’s mineral belt-chiefly reputed for various copper deposit, but, with concerted …

CONCERNS by players in the precious and gemstone industry over the relocation of the auction floor to Zambia unlike the foreign markets are now seemingly been overcome. Early in 2013 President Michael Sata directed that all auctions of the precious metal should be done in Zambia and not outside, a …

Logistics play a vital role in mining profitability. A unique bulk haulage fleet is supplying reliable, cost-effective materials-handling solutions to the Zambian and DRC copper industry, using trailers that enable return loads – even if they are bulk liquids. Road haulage is the backbone of supply chain logistics in African mining. While …