Minister of Mines Mines Minister Richard Musukwa has announced that Cabinet has resolved that all operations at Kasenseli gold mine be suspended.
Speaking on a conducted tour of the mining, comprising, Presidedent Edgar Lungu, Energy Minister Matthew Nkhuwa, North Western Province Minister Nathaniel Mubukwanu and other government and party officials, Mr Musukwa said that, following government’s declaration of gold as a strategic reserve, the Zambia Army and Zambia National Service (ZNS) will be deployed to provide security at the mine.
Mr Musukwa further said that foreigners have also invaded Mwinilunga and buying the precious mineral from people who are illegally mining in the area.
The Minister said no mining licences have been given out for people to mine at Kasenseli and has warned all those mining illegally that the long arm of the law will catch up with them.
The Mines Minister further said that ZCCM-IH working together with the local people will oversee operations of the mine.
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Say that again, it’s the beginning of trouble for the locals. Watch this space.
I fear that Zambia is going the way of Zimbabwe. Who holds a mining licence in that place? The country is being looted like it has no government. There’s something dysfunctional about some key institutions. We hv IDC, university departments teaching earth sciences, hv had a business school for nearly 40 years and this is all we can do. N-W province is key to the eco-system that supports the Zambezi river, a key river in the hydro-power industry. It’s not a place to handle like wht I’m seeing now.
Arrest the buyers, the local chief and the ministers in the trade.
You arrest Pilato but leaving these criminals in North Western Province, nothing makes from the PF cabinet.
Lungu’s Presidential motorcade killed Solwezi woman yesterday. where the news about that LT?
(kachema meat supplies employee) was hit by the presidential motorcade in Solwezi yesterday. Her body is now lying at the Solwezi General Hospital.
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Let the looting begin
NO BUSINESSES , SCHOOLS OR PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS ARE SAFE UNDER THE PF – IF THEY SEE THE POTENTIAL TO GRAB IT SO THE MONEY GOES IN THEIR POCKET THEY WILL DO IT !
Ba Kachepa…let the owners of the area benefit. You are very quick to take from NW province but slow to put up any structures. I wish you filmed how the president got there to expose the lack of roads or any decent development in the area. This gold will bring you problems. if you can get to it, make sure you put it in reserve to strengthen the kwacha otherwise, the foreign capitalist looters will be on your case and possibly remove you from power.
Lessons from Ghana, surly there is a lot to learn.
In 2013, the Ghanaian government raided many small-scale gold mining farmlls all over the country. Mining farms and equipment were burned, and 5,000 Chinese workers were deported. The Ghanaian government claimed that these workers were illegal, under the Small-Scale Gold Mining Act of 1989. One Chinese investor, however, claimed that the Chinese workers filled in the correct immigration paperwork.
Today, Ghana still operates many gold mines run by Chinese investors. According to Mining.com, “the Government of China empowered and encouraged a number of domestic state-owned and private companies to actively pursue mining deals throughout the world.”
In 2012, for example, China’s biggest gold producer – state-owned China National Gold –…
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China National Gold – reportedly planned to buy a stake in African Barrick Gold (ABG), Tanzania’s largest gold producer.
A stake in ABG would have enabled China National Gold to meet record-breaking demand for gold in China at the time.
“China continues to drain global gold inventory,” Bullionstar reported in 2015. In total, 2102 metric tonnes of gold were withdrawn from the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) in 2014, the SGE being the best indicator for Chinese wholesale demand.
China remains the largest producer of gold in the world, mining 440 metric tonnes in 2017. However, China’s gold production has decreased, because of what is suspected to be increased environmental regulations.
In global resource and energy politics, underdeveloped nations often bear the…
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underdeveloped nations often bear the environmental costs of mining.
“The emergence of China as a global player challenges the pre-existing dominance of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries and will continue to be a crucial force for global change in coming decades,” Dr Urban writes. “The implications of China’s rise will be most significant for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), but the outcomes will also affect the understanding of the process of development.”
Gold mines built by Chinese investors have destroyed water bodies in the heart of Ghana, Africa’s second-largest gold producer. River pollution caused by digging up the surrounding land areas have led to deforestation, dying fish and undrinkable water. Some rivers have…
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Some rivers have dried out completely, and deforestation has impoverished many local farmers.
Despite the massive environmental consequences, “many youth from remote villages have found work in the gold mines.” Many of these “youths” are children and teenagers.
“The Chinese mines are quite often a community’s biggest employer, but there is an environmental cost,” Aljazeera reported in 2016.
Local farmers have claimed that the Ghanaian government allows the miners to do as they please.
When Ghana signed the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury at the UN General Assembly, the country aimed to minimize exposure of mercury to its population. Despite this, many small-scale mining operations continue to use mercury when mining gold.
Children and teenagers who work at these…
Corruption and shady backroom deals are smelling here.
Let’s be a Federal Government. I suggest 10 States as we already have 10 Provinces. Each province/state will stand by its own strength in terms of what it can produce and sustain its people within the state and only contributing to central government via a set taxation State PAYE. We shall be known as United States of Zambia (USZ) Each state will have exclusive laws governed by the custom/traditions and cultural prevalences of that said state. States shall be led by governors voted in by the people of the given state. Constituents shall remain to form the electoral college that will vote in the country’s head of state. This is doable.
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The idea of States under governors and an electoral college to vote in the president would be better. Some provinces would have done better and others would have emulated the well to do by now. Mukula is under ZNS surveillance but the elite are still logging and shipping containers. I can smell the same with Gold. Zambia is for the voted not the voters.
T@s!la is now into Gold mining mega style.
Z.N.S will process the Gold for the Chinese, who will pay Corrupt LUNGU WABANTU his cut.
It is more money in P.F officials pockets for sure.
Too many schopet errors in this story. You can’t do simple chores such as proof reading baLT?There’s no difference between you and Zimba the new presidential advisor.
You are only interested in the money that you are making not in the job
Weak enforcement, Weak institutions and poor leadership. Not entirely ECLs fault, but he should no have to come to a mine to solve such issues.
Even we the issue is ‘solved’ someone if PF will be left holding a sack of cash while locals will be underpaid workers.
With the Army in charge, we are going the way of Zimbabwe.
What is this n0nsense Chilibwe mine which alraedy has license to mine gold in mwinilunga and it is subleasing its license to small scale mines. Whole idea stinks Mr President. You are taking the local people for granted and that can be recipe for disaster. The local people must benefit from this new discovery. Musukwa is another corrupt lucky imb.ecile.
Watching…..
Someone wants to recover the millions of dollars he lost through a gold scum in Nairobi Kenya the last time he went their with an advisor carrying sacks of us dollars cash.