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As concern grows over the continued environmental degradation globally, Zambia included, concerned activists have taken one more hindrance step in Africa’s fifth largest country-Democratic Republic of Congo. The Democratic Republic of Congo has halted oil exploration in the Virunga National Park, Africa’s oldest UNESCO-protected national park after global environmental activists …

As Zambia seeks to raise enough revenue to meet various financial obligations including infrastructure development, renowned economic analysts contend the policy deprives the treasury of resources. The Statutory Instrument (SI) number 89, which demands Government slapping a 10 percent export levy on copper concentrates by mining companies to allow maximising …

Writer: Kim Cloete Mobile units which cool the air in remote underground areas like mines are helping to provide a more comfortable working environment for workers who don’t have access to chilled water for cooling. M-Tech Industrial programme manager, Dr Martin van Eldik, says the Enerflow units are unique in …

After lengthy debate by various economic players within and outside Zambia, the International Monetary Fund has added its voice to appeals by the Government not to nationalize Konkola Copper Mines despite its shortcomings in recent years over its operations. In recent years, KCM, one of Zambia’s main copper and cobalt …

  The mining company has since taking over the unit pledged to cut down the emissions from the smelter a gas which will now be converted into production of acid which the company seeks to maximize in its production unlike releasing to the atmosphere. The completion of the upgrade programme …