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Background Note: Zambia (Scoop.co.nz)
Geography Area: 752,614 sq. km. (290,585 sq. mi.); slightly larger than Texas. Cities: Capital --Lusaka (pop. approx. 1 million). Other cities: Kitwe, Ndola, Livingstone, Kabwe. Terrain: Varies; mostly plateau savanna. Climate: Generally dry and temperate.
8 January 2009
Zambia MCM 09 Labor Deal Stalls Over Low Copper Prices -Union (INO News)
Zambia's second leading copper and cobalt producer Mopani Copper Mine, or MCM, hasn't renewed the contract for its workers due to low global copper prices, the president of National Union of Miners and Allied Workers told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday.
8 January 2009
Zambia: A Visit to Kaunda's Monument (AllAfrica.com)
Visiting Zambia would be incomplete without getting to the place where the father of the country, Kenneth Kaunda, organized and commanded the struggle for its independence.
8 January 2009
Vedanta, Singapore firm bid to run Zambia coal mine (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
LUSAKA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc and Singapore's Nava Bharat Pte Ltd. submitted final offers to operate Zambia's largest coal mine and to construct a thermal power station, the mine's owner said on Thursday.
8 January 2009
(AFX UK Focus) 2009-01-08 08:42 Zambia's Lumwana eyes 170,000 T copper output in '09 (Interactive Investor)
LUSAKA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Australia's Equinox Minerals Ltd. , which owns Zambia's Lumwana Copper Mine, said on Thursday it plans to produce 170,000 tonnes of copper metal in concentrate in 2009 after starting production at the mine. Equinox said in a statement production was progressing smoothly after the mine was commissioned late last year. The company said concentrate grade and specifications ...
8 January 2009
Zambia's Lumwana eyes 170,000 T copper output in '09 (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
LUSAKA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Australia's Equinox Minerals Ltd. , which owns Zambia's Lumwana Copper Mine, said on Thursday it plans to produce 170,000 tonnes of copper metal in concentrate in 2009 after starting production at the mine.
8 January 2009
Zambia may take over mines (News 24 South Africa)
Zambia may take over copper mines that have closed down as a result of the global crisis, President Rupiah Banda says.
7 January 2009
(AFX UK Focus) 2009-01-07 19:54 UPDATE 1-Equinox to defer Zambia uranium plant (Interactive Investor)
TORONTO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Equinox Minerals is delaying construction of a uranium processing plant at its Lumwana copper-uranium mine in Zambia, due to low uranium prices and difficulty raising financing, the Canadian company said on Wednesday. Equinox began copper production at Lumwana -- considered Africa's largest open-pit copper mine -- in December, and plans to eventually produce uranium to ...
7 January 2009
Equinox Defers Zambia Uranium Plant After Price Drop (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Equinox Minerals Ltd. , the company developing the Lumwana mine in Zambia, is deferring the construction of a uranium treatment plant because of the drop in the price of the metal and difficulty raising financing.
7 January 2009
Zambia budget to discuss copper mine windfall tax (The Forex Market)
LUSAKA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Zambia's Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane told Reuters on Wednesday he will raise the issue of a 25 percent windfall tax on copper mine operators in the national budget.
7 January 2009
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