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This paper undertook a critical literature review on safety and health hazards that pause huge potential of affecting operations at Konkola Copper Mine (KCM), Zambia.
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Assessing the vulnerability of local communities in Zambia's Solwezi copper mining district to mining impacts. Application of the livelihood …
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Konkola Copper Mine (KCM), Zambia. The article argues that safety and health hazards as operational risks that if remain unchecked, would affect productivity in the mining industry.
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After sovereign default in 2020, botched mine nationalisations and a drying up of investment in pits under his predecessor Edgar Lungu, President Hakainde Hichilema is on a mission to more than ...
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The Zambian copper mining industry as we know it today had its genesis in the 1920s. Consistent private sector-driven investment in the industry over a period of over 50 years in exploration, mine ...
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KoBold Metals, an AI-powered mineral exploration company backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, is planning to commission the Mingomba copper and cobalt mine in Zambia within ten years, reported Reuters. The California-based exploration company plans to invest roughly $150m to accelerate exploration work at the Mingomba …
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The application of a health impact assessment (HIA) for a large-scale copper mining project in rural Zambia triggered the long-term monitoring and evaluation of determinants of health and health outcomes in communities living in proximity to the mine. Three consecutive cross-sectional surveys were conducted at intervals of four years; …
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Mine-related air pollution, therefore, if left unchecked, constitutes a serious threat to agricultural prosperity and biodiversity sustainability in Zambia. Air pollution …
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Gates, Bezos-backed KoBold Metals says Zambia copper find largest in a century. ndida in Chile, the world's biggest copper mine, produced more than a million metric tons of the metal last ...
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Section 2 Making Mining Work for Zambia 13. Mining and the Zambian economy 14 Analysis of mining taxation 17 The environmental-health nexus 24 The legacy of lead and the human cost of previous mines 26 Mining environmental governance 28 Conclusion: making mining work for Zambia 29. Annex A Economic Data 31 Annex B …
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The study explores and assesses mining and its environmental and social impacts on communities within which mining activities take place. The focus is on a mining community in Chingola, Zambia called Nchanga North Township where mining is carried out by a mining group called Vedanta Resources Plc, KCM.
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known today as Zambia long before the white settlers came on the scene. The mining was of a traditional and subsistence nature and confined to surface outcrop deposits. The natives of Zambia would melt and mould the copper into ingots used as a medium of exchange and other metal products, such as hand tools and weapons. …
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The pollution load index (PLI) was nearly twice higher for the tailings dam (8.97) than the overburden (5.84). The findings show that the copper mine wastes (the tailings dams and overburden waste rock sites) are highly contaminated by heavy metals; which, in turn, might pose serious hazards to human health and agricultural productivity.
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The study targeted Konkola Copper Mine safety department employees as they provided responses that had high reliability and validity levels. ... 13,924 copper mining workers in Zambia reported 165 ...
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The smelter slag contains of cobalt and copper. When Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited was privatized, the slag dump was purchased by Anglo Vaal Mining who later sold to Nkana Alloy and Smelting Company Limited. Various small scale illegal miners (locally called Jerabos) started illegally reclaiming the slag and selling to Chinese buyers ...
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Critical literature review on safety and health hazards as operational risks affecting mining productivity: A case of Konkola copper mine, Zambia 1 Victor Muchemwa, 2 Dr. Asif Karim, *3 Dr ...
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The current mining technology used in Zambia allows for extraction of copper to maximum of 40% from the ore materials. Furthermore, processing of ore concentration in the past was only applicable to copper sulphide although copper ore is a mixture of copper sulphide and copper oxide (pers, Environmental coordinator for …
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The research design employed was an exploratory study of literature in enhanced quality and safety management in the mining sector. A phenomenological approach was used to support the study.
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The study was undertaken to establish safety and health hazards as operational risks affecting the mining productivity in Zambia. A case study of Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) was employed as a ...
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A recent policy report by the London School of Economics' International Growth Centre (IGC) has done an in-depth dive into Zambia's copper industry, identifying crucial pain points and opportunities for the country's economic development.. Zambia is a significant player in copper mining in Africa, second only to the DRC. The country relies …
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This study addresses the comparative influence of physicochemical parameters on the dissolution of Pb and its levels in the groundwater of former Pb …
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3 Introduction1 Background to Zambia and copper mining Copper mining is the lifeblood of the Zambian economy, generating three-quarters of the country's foreign exchange earnings.2 Copper is equally important to western and newly industrialising countries such as China, where
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The fatality frequency rate in copper mining in Zambia was high, particularly at underground sites. Measures should be taken to reduce the risk of …
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presented evidence on mining and public Health in Zambia. Mining serves as an integral part of development. Dr Mwansa noted that Zambian towns like Kitwe Chingola, Mufulira and Chililabombwe have been built from resources earned from mining. Large scale mining started in Kabwe in 1902 and on the copper belt in 1910. At
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First Quantum Minerals has received interest from multiple parties hoping to buy a minority stake in its Zambian copper operations as the Canadian miner looks to offset financial damage caused by the closure of its flagship mine in Panama.. According to Bloomberg, First Quantum's chairman, Robert Harding, said the company had signed …
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Although small and large-scale mining exists in the district, our study focuses on large-scale mining effects on local communities. Ten kilometres north of the centre of Solwezi town is Kansanshi Mine, a large-scale open-pit mine and the biggest copper mine by output in Afric (Kesselring 2017) The copper and gold mining operations began in …
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This study was undertaken, in Chingola District in Zambia, operation centre for Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), and Lubumbashi in DRC, where Gécamines and other mining companies operate, to ascertain ...
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Zambia possesses 6 percent of known world copper reserves. The resources available to existing mines in Zambia are estimated at 2.8 billion tonnes of ore ranging between 0.6 …
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Barrick Gold has fast-tracked the Super Pit expansion project at its Lumwana copper mine in Zambia, with the first production now anticipated in 2028.. Expected to entail an investment of nearly $2bn, the project is said to elevate Lumwana to the ranks of the world's leading copper mines, once operational.
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Zambia depends mainly on copper mining and imports the bulk of chemicals needed for academic, domestic, and industrial consumption. The country has never had an economically viable chemical ...
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