Employment laws should strike a balance between promoting the rights of workers, and ensuring businesses remain profitable enough to provide for broad employment.
The Employment Code Act (ECA) has been widely criticised for disrupting this balance since it was first...
The KCM saga has dominated headlines since a liquidator was appointed to run the Chingola-based mine in May, after ZCCM-IH (which owns approximately 20% of KCM) accused majority shareholders, Vedanta Resources, of breaching its licence.
On the one hand, there...
Women are playing an increasingly important role in the Zambian mining industry, occupying positions of power and authority at all levels.
Whether it’s at major mines in North-Western province or the Copperbelt, women can be found working as lawyers, engineers,...
Matthew Banda didn’t exactly choose a career in mining. You could say, perhaps, that it chose him. His serendipitous entrance into the industry began with a roommate whose textbooks on mining engineering intrigued the young University of Zambia student,...
With eight months behind us since First Quantum Minerals took to the stage at the 2022 Investing in African Mining Indaba and announced a $100 million cash injection to bring Zambia’s Enterprise Nickel Mine online, the time is ripe...
Where in the world are you likely to undergo more breathalyser tests within the space of a few days than you’re likely to encounter in your entire lifetime?
Answer: at any of Zambia’s major copper mines. For safety reasons, they...
Hop on board our drone and check out the sheer size and scale of Zambia’s mining operations when viewed from the air. Machinery, trucks, finished copper – it’s all there.
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It accounts for less than 2% of annual copper production, yet Chibuluma Mine, situated on the Copperbelt, is one of Zambia’s most successful mines in safety, productivity and profitability.
Chibuluma Mine has had “only” one fatality in eight years. Its...
Rail SI, the statutory instrument which compels mines and other businesses to transport 30% of their bulk cargo by rail, will not be enforced until Zambia Railways has increased its freight-carrying capacity and improved its infrastructure, board chairman Lubinda...
Munali Nickel Mine’s exciting relaunch of operations in April 2019 is the result of no less than $50 million of investment by Consolidated Nickel Mines, and a culmination of almost four years of hard work and determination by the...
