Veronica Ryder, owner and founder of the Kansanshi Hotel in Solwezi, relates the fascinating story of how a bare patch of ground that nobody...
What does a mining investor look like? Is it a powerful, cigar-chomping businessman in a power suit sitting in a corner office in New...
Which is hardest – swimming in shark-infested waters, climbing Mount Everest or trying to get international investors to fund your new mining project?
The latter,...
Zambia has some pretty big copper mines, and is Africa’s second-largest copper producer. But how do our mines compare on a global scale? And...
'To my grandmother it was a miracle.’ This is what the late Swedish academic, Hans Rosling, said when he gave a talk on one...
Zambia is currently ranked as the world’s 30th most attractive mining destination in the world. This is according to the latest rankings from the...
Measures of democracy and governance are becoming increasingly popular, and a number of indices are now published annually, showing how countries around the world...
The recent call by Mines Minister, Honourable Christopher Yaluma, for Zambia to start manufacturing finished copper products locally instead of importing them is a...
A two-man team from Chile’s mining industry visited Zambia recently and met with the Chamber of Mines, the Presidency, the Zambia Revenue Authority’s Mineral...
African governments and their mining industries can achieve their respective objectives if they work together in a spirit of partnership that emphasises long-term growth...
