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2024年8月7日

作者:
Chris Mfula, Business Day

Zambia: Proposed mineral law will ‘seriously undermine property rights’ says Chamber of Mines

'Proposed mining law in Zambia will drive away investors, say critics’ 7 August 2024

Zambia’s proposed minerals regulation law could deter investment and deliver a “fatal blow” to plans to raise annual copper output to 3-million tonnes, two mining bodies said on Wednesday. Zambia’s government has proposed a new Minerals Regulation Commission Bill, which seeks to “regulate and monitor the development and management of mineral resources” in Africa’s second-biggest copper producer. But Zambia’s Chamber of Mines (ZCM), the main mining industry body, and the Association of Zambian Mineral Exploration Companies (AZMEC) said in a joint statement that some parts of the proposed law “will drive up the perception of investment risk in Zambia”.

“Unfortunately, due to … the prospect of forced ‘free carry’ acquisitions by the state of stakes in new ventures, this bill will seriously undermine property rights,” the mining industry bodies said. “The bill also grants unaccountable and arbitrary discretionary decision-making powers to individual regulators, which present obvious future corruption risks,” they added. Zambia’s mining ministry was not immediately available to comment. President Hakainde Hichilema’s government, elected in 2021, has sought to repair the country’s investment reputation and ramp up copper production, which was affected by the seizure of Konkola Copper Mines from Vedanta by the previous administration in 2019.

…Copper output slumped to 698,000 tonnes in 2023 from 763,000 tonnes the previous year, data from the Zambia Chamber of Mines showed. Mining majors such as Barrick Gold and First Quantum Minerals are investing billions of dollars in their Zambian copper assets. The United Arab Emirates’ International Resources Holding (IRH) has pledged to invest $1.1bn to expand output at Mopani Copper Mines after buying a 51% stake in the company previously owned by Glencore.

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