Copper is back and it is here to stay, experts said during last week’s Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town. Green energy, clean tech such as electric vehicles and digital innovations are key role players.
The past decade...
Following International Women’s Day on 8 March 2021, let’s take a moment to celebrate the strides towards gender equality that are being made every day of the year at major mining companies across Zambia. Around the country, women have...
See the fascinating process of copper production, from the blasting of ore from the ground all the way to the smelter, where it emerges as plated metal ready for export.
Watch the video below.
The atmosphere at the mining industry’s third annual Health and Safety Conference, held in Ndola last week, was particularly buoyant and positive – and for good reason: with less than two months to go before the end of 2017,...
Barrick Lumwana is a massive open-pit mine, about 100 km from Solwezi. The mineral deposit is very large, but relatively low-grade – the ore contains just 0.58% copper.
Because of this, Barrick Lumwana has to dig up a lot more material...
KoBold Metals breaks ground on the Mingomba Mine near Chililabombwe in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province on 29 April 2026. The project is targeting 300,000 annual tonnes of copper by the early 2030s, in a significant contribution to Government’s three million...
Four big mines dominate Zambia’s copper production, complemented by several smaller players who also play an important role. All the mines are backed by a wide range of respected international investors.
The Zambian government, through its investment-holding company ZCCM-IH, is...
You know you have one of the world’s most sophisticated underground copper mines when people from as far afield as Germany and Switzerland come to visit it and walk away impressed.
“Foreign visitors can’t believe that an African country has...
With copper now hovering around $6 000 a tonne, the red metal is enjoying its strongest and most sustained price rally since the depths of the global commodity slump in January 2015, when it was languishing at around $4...
Operational challenges, declining ore grades and the need to contain costs have not prevented First Quantum Minerals’ Kansanshi Mine from producing a sterling set of financial results at the end of 2016, and confirming its status as Zambia’s flagship...
