Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holdings has announced plans to enter into exploration of base metals with the creation of an in house exploration arm to oversee the venture.
ZCCM IH Chairman Willa Mungomba told Reporters that the company is interested in venturing base metal exploration in Zambia as part of its reinvestment programme.
Mr. Mungomba said necessary documents has been developed and submitted to the Ministry of Finance and Mines and the Attorney General’s office for legal opinion.
He said ZCCM IH hopes that the new exploration firm would be operational by January 2013.
Mr. Mungomba said ZCCM IH would welcome local and foreign investment into the venture as a way of a stake.
ZCCM IH, with a market capitalization of USD 178 million is an investment holdings firm for the Zambian government and holds minimum equity in most of the mining companies operating in the country.
Way to go.
THIEVES AGAIN,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
THIS MOVE SHOULD BE BLOCKED BY ALL MEANINGS, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS ENTAIL?? DONT ARGUE IF U HAVE NO CLUE
am geologist and you ur not so you dont understand better keep quite.
I MEANT …..THIS MOVE SHOULD BE BLOCKED BY ALL MEANS, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS ENTAIL?? DONT ARGUE IF U HAVE NO CLUE
Get into mineral processing of old tailings dumps ,not explorations.
way to go. just be responsible with the tax payers money. if MOPANI, KCM ETC can mine at a profit why cant a zambian owned company fail
the problem is that the board and the managment of zccm is a group of lazy and incompetent people…
In iraq they will not find oil, in Zambia they’ll only take cash…:o