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Nov 20, 2020Lusaka High Court granted the Board of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) and Vedanta Resources Holdings Ltd (Vedanta) an injunction order preventing the sale of KCM Mining Right areas by the KCM Provisional Liquidator - Mr Milingo Lungu. 20 November 2020 Court of Appeal rules in favour of Vedanta. December 2020
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The Kapulo copper mine is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, approximately 135km north east of the Dikulushi mine, an operating mine of Mawson West. Mawson West acquired the Kapulo mine from Anvil Mining in May 2010. It owns 90% of the project. The remaining 10% is held by the Dikulushi-Kapulo Community Foundation Non-Profit Organisation.
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Aug 3, 2022KCM team wins national mine-rescue competition August 3, 2022 11:33 Konkola Copper Mines Plc (KCM) mine rescue teams have emerged winners of the 2022 national mine rescue competition, a dress-rehearsal undertaken to ascertain the preparedness of underground mine rescue teams to manage major mine accidents in the mining sector.
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Jul 6, 2022LUSAKA (Reuters) - Shareholders in Zambia's ZCCM-IH have overwhelmingly supported its acquisition of a 90% stake in Mopani Copper Mines (MCM), the state-owned mining investment firm said on Wednesday. Glencore agreed the sale of its majority stake in Mopani to ZCCM-IH in a $1.5 billion deal, the miner and trader said in January.
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Zambian copper miners. Metorex Ltd. (PINK: MRXLY) Metorex is a copper/cobalt mining company with producing and development assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. Assets include ...
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KCM owns and operates the Konkola (underground) and Nchanga (underground and open cast) copper mines and the Nampundwe pyrite (underground) mine in Lusaka Province. It took over ownership of these three mines in March 2000 from the state-owned company Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited (ZCCM) as an outcome of the privatization of the ...
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Sep 29, 2021The state-appointed provisional liquidator of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), Milingo Lungu, has been arrested and charged with laundering more than $2 million, Zambia's money-laundering authority ...
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Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) is one of the largest copper producers in Zambia. It operates underground and open-pit mines as well as metallurgical plants with operations located at Nchanga, Konkola, Nkana, and Nampundwe. KCM's operations include a state-of-the-art smelter, open pit, and underground mines and a refinery.
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2 days agoCopper Mine (KCM) have been suspended to pave way for dialogue. Mr Kabuswe says he is confident that issues between ZCCM-IH and Vedanta will be resolved as soon as possible in order to enhance mining activities for KCM. Mr Kabuswe says KCM is an important asset, this is why government is expediting the process of resolving the issues at hand. ...
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Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda has said this during the tour at Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) in Chingola yesterday. "We are here to underscore the importance of mining operations also to extend...
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AN employee of Vedanta's Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) shaft 4 has died after an accident which occurred in the mine. KCM General Manager for Corporate Affairs Eugen Chungu has confirmed the death in a statement and said the accident happened on Thursday. "It is with great sadness that Vedanta Africa Base Metals confirms that an [.]
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Stand M/1408, Fern Avenue, Chingola, Zambia. Chingola, Zambia. Konkola Copper Mines Plc (KCM) is one of Africa's largest integrated copper producers and has operations in four locations namely, Chililabombwe, Chin .. To be a world-class copper mining and metals company, leveraging mineral and human resources to enhance stakeholder value ...
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The first appellant, Vedanta Resources Plc (hereinafter referred to as 'Vedanta') is the holding company for a large multinational group of base metal and mining companies, including KCM, the second appellant, which is a public limited company incorporated in Zambia. KCM owns and operates Nchanga mine in Chingola, Zambia. In effect, these ...
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The report findings highlight the importance that ICT companies sourcing copper perform HRDD on their mineral supply chains, such as copper and other high-risk minerals, in addition to 3TG and cobalt. The research team also visited Chingola, which hosts the Nchanga mine owned by Konkola Copper Mines Plc. (KCM).
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Konkola Copper Mine Plc (KCM) is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc (vedanta), a London listed diversified global natural resources company. The group produces aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, silver, iron core, oil and gas and commercial energy. Vedanta has operations in india, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Ireland and Australia.
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Copper processing is a complicated process that begins with mining of the ore (less than 1% copper) and ends with sheets of 99.99% pure copper called cathodes, which will ultimately be made into products for everyday use.The most common types of ore, copper oxide and copper sulfide, undergo two different processes, hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy, respectively, due to the different ...
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Jan 4, 2022Zambia Mining KCM needs $270 million to deal with flooding mine, Minister told January 4, 2022 Janet Ngule About $270 million is needed for the procurement of a pump chamber meant to pump out water at three shafts which are flooded at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) in Chililabombwe.
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Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) is one of the largest copper producers in Zambia. It operates underground and open pit mines as well as metallurgical plants with operations located at Nchanga, Konkola, Nkana and Nampundwe. KCMs operations include a state-of-the-art smelter, open pit and underground mines and a refinery. ... School management
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Operational problems at Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) have heightened because of a myriad of problems besieging the country's leading producer of copper and cobalt. Until Friday, Sept.26, KCM had power restricted to a number of operations including the concentrator at the Tailings Leach plant and the underground section which later was flooded ...
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Aug 1, 2015But a scientist who worked for more than 15 years with KCM said there has been little maintenance of critical equipment since Vedanta bought the mine, despite production of some 10,000 tonnes of ...
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The copper oxide minimum minerals are dissolved by the acid to give a blue copper rich solution mainly of copper sulfate. This solution is tapped off from the bottom of the pad and placed into big tanks with steel plates an electrical current is passed from the tank to the steel which is then electroplated with pure copper.
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In October 2015 Foil Vedanta visited Vedanta's Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) for the second time to investigate the legacy of pollution that has destroyed the environment and livelihoods around Chingola since 2004, when Vedanta bought controlling shares in KCM. KCM is Africa's largest copper mine and the largest mining ...
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Gnanasivan said with the current copper price averaging US$7,250 per metric tonne and indications of further declining, KCM would continue exploring way of reducing its operation costs. Gnanasivan said the price of above US$7,500 per metric would enabled KCM to operate sustainably as it was a high production cost mine. "It's very worrisome ...
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Feb 4, 2021The alleged contamination is understood to have begun in 2005.Canadian pollution experts employed to advise KCM's parent company Vedanta in 2010 confirmed "constant contamination" of streams, and called for 17 major and minor actions to stop the spillage of polluted water into the environment, according to a report published in The ...
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Sep 21, 2021LUSAKA - Zambia's mines minister Paul Kabuswe on Monday criticised the previous administration's push to liquidate Vedanta's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) unit, which sparked years of wrangling...
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Mar 8, 2021Additionally, copper mining productivity drastically slumped during the period mining companies were nationally owned from 1968 to 2000. Since 2000, however, copper productivity soared under private ownership. Dr Musokotwane's analysis was dubbed: Mopani, KCM, the Mining Industry and the future of the Zambian Economy.
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Zambia's mines minister Paul Kabuswe on Monday criticised the previous administration's push to liquidate Vedanta's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) unit, which sparked years of wrangling between the company and government. ZAMBIA BUSINESS TIMES Prioritize resolving KCM & Mopani issues Published: 14 September 2021
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Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) is one of the largest copper producers in Zambia. It operates underground and open-pit mines as well as metallurgical plants with operations located at Nchanga, Konkola, Nkana, and Nampundwe. KCM's operations include a state-of-the-art smelter, open pit, and underground mines and a refinery.
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The surface material offers significant copper material situated near KCM's existing plants, ideal for tolling material through KCM at reduced transport costs. All regulatory and environmental approvals were granted in late 2019 to commence mining the surface material and accelerate production via the KCM Tailings Leach Plant.
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Jun 8, 2022Botswana Miners Workers Union (BMWU) has accused Khoemacau Copper Mine (KCM) for neglecting employee safety. The accusation comes in the backdrop of an accident which claimed the lives of two employees who were working for Barminco Mining Services, a company sub-contracted by KCM to provide underground mining services.
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Mar 1, 2022Despite its mineral endowment, the mining sector has been dominated by copper extraction which has dwarfed the exploitation of other mineral resources such as gold and gemstones and industrial minerals (Banda 2016 ).
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May 8, 2022Vedanta Resources has offered to step up investment in Zambia's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) and implement several social responsibility programmes if it resumes control of the local firm, a ...
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He told the Zambian Business Times - ZBT in an exclusive interview on May 8, 2020, that KCM had in the first of quarter [Q1] of 2020 produced a total of 15,715 tonnes of copper compared to 20,596 produced in the first quarter of the previous year 2019 attributing the decrease to the current incomplete operations at the mines.
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Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) was the largest and most copper rich asset sold off as part of the break up of national mining company ZCCM. It was originally sold to Anglo American plc for $90 million in 2002, who have been in Zambia since the 1930s, and had been managing the mine for ZCCM prior to official privatisation.
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Mar 9, 2021Vedanta Resources has battled the Zambian government for nearly two years over Lusaka's decision to liquidate its subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), but a February court ruling means time ...
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As the name implies, the Copperbelt is the home of Zambia's great copper mining industry which is, is terms of world production, second only to the United States. But a mere thirty years ago the Copperbelt consisted of little more than dense bush.
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May 9, 2022The president's investment drive received a boost this week after First Quantum Minerals Ltd. approved a $1.25 billion project to expand its Kansanshi copper mine in Zambia. The government's...
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Green Party President Peter Sinkamba has called upon the Mines Safety Department (MSD) to enforce the mining laws and regulations by prohibiting provisional liquidator Mr. Milingo Lungu from continued management of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) mining operations because he lacks minimum qualifications prescribed by mining regulations to do so.
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Feb 17, 2021VEDANTA Resources has warned potential buyers of assets held in its 85%-owned Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) that any corporate activity would be "deemed inappropriate", and that it would seek to protect its interests in Zambia and internationally.. The Indian firm's comments come as the provisional liquidator, appointed by the Zambian government, progresses a plan to split the assets ...
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Zambian Mining News The Premium Source of Information on The Zambian Mining Industry. ... News. Mining companies getting increasingly involved in the Central African Copper Belt 4 days ago. Mining's Energy Transition Dependent on New Copper Sourcing 5 days ago; using Electra Mining platform to showcase milestone strides 2 weeks ago ...
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