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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, …

After extensive drilling and exploration of the Duwi project in Malawi prospective owners,   Sovereign Metals Limited, have affirmed the mineral project as one of the largest, high grade, flake graphite deposits in the world. The copper, gold and uranium exploration miner which was recently listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange’s …

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 …