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[[Image:KONKOLA COPPER MINES LOGO.png|thumb|right|300px|''Logo'']] ...and smelting company in Zambia. It is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources, a mining conglomerate based in [[Mumbai]] and London. Konkola's name is abbreviated

...ngola]], on the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has large copper reserves. There is a copper smelter at [[Nchanga Mines]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metal-pages.com

...ted by 1973.<ref>[http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/jsaimm/v116n6/03.pdf Copper mining in Zambia - history and future by J. Sikamo, A. Mwanza, and C. Mweemba]</re ..., when the government obtained a 51% shareholding in the then two existing mining companies. These were Roan Selection Trust and Anglo American Corporation,

The '''Nchanga mines''' are a group of copper mineing operations near the municipal town of [[Chingola]] in [[Zambia]]. Open Pit mining at Nchanga started in 1955, in the main Nchanga Open Pit. Subsequently, nin

...ended. In 1982 NCCM and RCM were merged into the giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/place/Zambia Zambia on Britannic

...t at the site of the Nkana Mine. The mines in Nkana were among the largest copper mines in the world employing in excess of 20,000 people. The city of [[Kitw

Centres of mining operations include [[Konkola]] and [[Kitwe]]. [[File:Zambia Export Treemap.png|thumb|Copper is a major export of Zambia, Export Treemap 2012.]]

...tus]], tropical pine, and other exotic tree species supplying wood for the mining industry. The Woods are also supplied to [[ZESCO]] an electricity company.

...[[TAZARA Railway]], the largest aid project, a rail connection between the copper mines of Zambia to the seaport of Tanzania.<ref name=chinadaily>{{cite news ...crease in Chinese migration raised the level of discontent towards Chinese mining investors, turning the issue of Chinese investors and migration into a poli

...hi Anticlinal. The mining site has been running since the 19th century for copper and gold successively. Lumwana, on the other hand, was discovered in 1961, ...a Empire of [[Zaire]]. They were among the first Zambians to do mining of copper in Zambia as suggested by archaeological evidence at the Kansanshi Mine in

...is the home of Nchanga Copper Mine, a deep-shaft high-grade content copper mining operation, which subsequently (in the 1960s) led to the development of two See [[Copperbelt Province]] for the history of the copper-mining industry.

...'s''' largest customer is the Zambian copper industry, including the large mining company [[KCM and MCM]]; it exports cement and cement clinker to nearby cou

...org/</ref> due to the social and environmental risks of unregulated copper mining, particularly to the people living near mines.

| industry = mining| '''ZCCM Investments Holdings''' is a successor company to Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited (ZCCM Ltd), of [[Zambia]].

...while under the sponsorship of the mining conglomerate Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited (ZCCM) but now runs under the auspices of the Zambia Episcopa ...eds University]]. [[Camborne School of Mines]] was the default college for Mining Engineering students.

|occupation_blank1 = Mining The main economic activity is the mining of copper.

|name = '''Mopani Copper Mines Plc ''' |industry = Mining, Materials

[[File:Copper-lw27c.jpg|thumb|Detail of a specimen of [[native copper]] from the Mufulira Mine]] ...tablished in the 1930s around the site of the Mufulira [[Copper extraction|Copper Mine]] on its north-western edge. The town is 16&nbsp;km from the border of

...g industry that provides more than 90 percent of Zambia's export earnings. Copper is the principal mineral produced, and cobalt, selenium, and precious metal ...d part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953. Members of the mining communities of the Copperbelt took a lead role in the political struggle th

...st Jews in Zambia were prominent in the [[cattle]] production and [[copper mining]] businesses.<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary1"/><ref name="worldjewishcongr