![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s time to get Zambians involved in a major way to contribute to the economy of the country,” opens Charles Sakanya, CEO at a proud national mining organisation on the cusp of greatness.Īs a producer of copper cathode, Mopani Copper Mines has suffered from the fluctuations in copper’s value, and is now on a journey of recovery after operations were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a result of the attendant disruption and drop in copper prices. Yet in today’s context, those market conditions are very much in copper’s favour. That was before the fluctuation of prices for the resource on the world market indicated an unpredictability that, in turn, alerted the need for diversification.Īs a commodity, the price of copper is volatile, leading to an unreliable income and a heightened cost of production within the mining realm. Indeed, during Zambia’s nascent days of independence in the 1960s, the nation’s prosperity entirely depended on the exploitation of its rich copper reserves. As the rose-tinted foundation for the country’s economic growth, the upkeep of what remains of the country’s copper reserves is integral to Zambia’s development. In an industrial context, mining is the lifeblood of the Zambian economy. Within Zambia, this mineral wealth is concentrated within the Copperbelt Province, where the towns of Ndola, Kitwe, Chingola, Kalulushi, Chililabombwe, Luanshya, and Mufulira are hotbeds of copper mining and production. Snaking along the breadth of Central Africa, traversing northern Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, lies the Copperbelt – a resource-rich area reputed for copper mining. In the landscape of south-central Africa, copper resources find their heartland in the high plateaus of Zambia. Fast forward centuries, and the prevalence and usefulness of the metal has not waned. In early civilisation, copper found usage as the only metal known to man for over five millennia. A COMPETITIVE HERITAGE RISING FROM THE ASHES THE FUTURE OF MOPANI COPPER MINES – AN INVESTMENT FOR THE NATION ANSWERING MODERN DEMAND MOPANI COPPER MINES: PROUDLY ZAMBIAN MCM: AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE A RESPONSIBLE CORPORATE CITIZEN PRIORITISING EDUCATION HOW MOPANI COPPER MINES NAVIGATES CRISES THE HEART OF THE MINE MODERNISING MCM VIEW THE MOPANI COPPER MINES BROCHUREįor over 10,000 years, mankind has worked with copper. ![]()
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