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Murray & Roberts Cementation’s second contract, for the trackless high speed development at Lubambe Copper Mine in Zambia, has been extended by a further two-year period.   The Lubambe Copper Mine which is a joint venture between African Rainbow Minerals, VALE and Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holdings, is expected …

Booyco Electronics’ state-of-the-art on-board monitoring device is fitted to underground mining equipment to measure a spectrum of parameters that affect both equipment and operator. These include detailed, accurate and real-time data indicating the operating, standing and idle hours of vehicles, the percussion running hours of drill rigs and roof bolter …

Speculation is mounting over the future of the much anticipated construction and commissioning of more than US$500 million Mokambo underground copper mine in Mufulira, a unit of China’s Changfa Resources Limited whose development was focused to start in August this year with an initial investment o US$500 million. The project …

Despite the various problems afflicting Konkola Copper Mines in recent months in addition to a commercial standoff with Copperbelt Energy Corporation over US$44 million in energy services, the miner has upheld its tax obligations and remitted over K700 million in taxes to Zambia Revenue Authority two years ago. Deputy mines …

Operational problems at Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) have heightened because of a myriad of problems besieging the country’s leading producer of copper and cobalt. Until Friday, Sept.26, KCM had power restricted to a number of operations including the concentrator at the Tailings Leach plant and the underground section which later was flooded …