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Aim-listed Gemfields has announced the finalisation of four debt financing facilities after considering a number of alternatives from various banks. Janet Boyce, Gemfields CFO says the facilities, together with Kagem’s existing revolving credit facility of USD$ 30 million with Barclays Bank in Zambia, provides the company with the necessary funding …

After enjoying one of the greatest mining booms in its history, Zambia is now suffering. The price of copper—a metal on which much of the country depends—has fallen by half in the last five years. This fall has resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs and the deterioration of …

Zambia’s copper output will rise by 5.5% to 750 000 t this year and output is expected to double to 1.5-million tonnes in 2017, Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma said recently at the just ended mining and energy expo in Lusaka. Copper production in Africa’s second-biggest producer of the metal was …

It was very interesting listening to the plans of Botswana coal mining companies on South Africa call for 3 750 MW of cross- border power from independent power producers (IPPs). Much reference was made to a gazette notice put out by South Africa’s Department of Energy that opens the way …

Zambia’s copper output will rise by 5.5% to 750 000 t this year and output is expected to double to 1.5-million tonnes in 2017, Mines Minister Christopher Yaluma said. Copper production in Africa’s second-biggest producer of the metal was at 711 515 t in 2015. “It has to do with …