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Tough decisions. (Comment).

Publication: Mining Journal
Publication Date: 01-FEB-02
Format: Online - approximately 670 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Tough decisions. (Comment).(Anglo American to cease investment in Konkola Copper Mines)(Brief Article)

Article Excerpt
To the outsider, perhaps the most inspiring feature of sub-Saharan Africa is the widespread cheerfulness of its people in the face of the most crushing adversity. Those smiles will be a struggle on the Zambian Copperbelt this week, following Anglo American's decision to cease further investment in Konkola Copper Mines. Anglo cites the prices of copper and cobalt as the main culprits, and has been at pains to acknowledge the efforts both of its workforce and of the Zambian authorities in trying to avert this outcome.

Some Zambian critics have blamed the previous government of Frederick Chiluba and the...

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