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Tiger Resources Ltd said it produced a record 4,422t of copper concentrate in June from its Kipoi copper mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The output is 47% above the plant’s nameplate capacity and 10% higher than the previous monthly record of 4,007t achieved in March, Tiger said. …

In the wake of a successful decline sinking project completed last year at Lubambe copper mine in Zambia, Murray & Roberts Cementation has been awarded a new contract for trackless high speed development. The project is scheduled to extend to January 2014. The mine is a joint venture between African …

KALAHARI Geo Energy Limited plans to commence preliminary shallow drilling for geothermal energy development at its identified sites in the Kafue basin. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Zambian government in 2011 for geothermal energy exploration rights to “certain identified targets among them in Kafue basin” but …

SOUTHERN Africa Resource Watch (SARW) Zambia coordinator Edward Lange has appealed to the government not to abandon the corrective process simply to satisfy the interest of First Quantum Minerals, which has threatened to lay off 500 workers at its Kalumbila mine in Solwezi. And Zambia Congress of Trade Unions secretary …

MINES deputy minister Richard Musukwa says “there is no ban” on auctioning of Zambia’s emeralds abroad. However, in April, then mines minister, Yamfwa Mukanga, directed that all Zambian emeralds be auctioned in the country, contending that “Zambian gemstones have for a long time been sold on foreign markets and the …