{"id":408104,"date":"2011-04-29T15:13:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/29\/govt-to-allow-pros-in-mining-sector\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T15:13:44","slug":"govt-to-allow-pros-in-mining-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/29\/govt-to-allow-pros-in-mining-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to Allow Pros in Mining Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.5820895522\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.co.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ac5c213deszambia180.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" title=\"Visit The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>MINES and Mineral Development Deputy Minister Jazzman Chikwakwa has said the Government will allow professionals to run mining while it continues to create an enabling environment for the growth of the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chikwakwa, who was in Solwezi on a tour of mines, said on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy call on North-Western Province Minister Daniel Kaleng&#8217;a that the Government still regarded mining as its base for economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>He said his ministry would continue to implement geological surveys so that it could establish the minerals that the country was endowed with.<\/p>\n<p>He said the MMD Government had performed well because under the ZCCM time there was a perception that Zambia could no longer have mines and most of them had closed down.<\/p>\n<p>He said that with time even mines that had closed were opened up and now North-Western Province had new mines giving an indication that Zambia was headed back to the days of massive copper mining.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will let professionals run the mines as Government ensures good governance and an enabling environment for the growth of mining activities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chikwakwa urged people in North-Western Province to vote for President Banda in this year&#8217;s elections because he was the driver of the success being recorded in the mines.<\/p>\n<p>He advised that the mining sector should be connected to agriculture so that people could have jobs, money and food adding that only the MMD was capable of doing that.<\/p>\n<p>He said that his ministry had not received any reports of workers being mistreated at Kansanshi Mine saying there were relevant departments charged with the responsibility to oversee such.<\/p>\n<p>Before touring Kansanshi Mine, Mr Chikwakwa told the plant manager Allan Delaney that 42 per cent of Zambia&#8217;s land was geographically untapped and North-Western Province was believed not to have any minerals.<\/p>\n<p>He urged First Quantum Mining to extend its explorations to Luapula where he said there were indications of manganese, copper and other minerals.<\/p>\n<p>After the tour of Kansanshi Mine, Mr Chikwakwa praised mining companies for what they were doing for the people in the areas in which they were operating.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See original article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104290765.html\" title=\"Govt to Allow Pros in Mining Sector\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Govt to Allow Pros in Mining Sector<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 April 2011 MINES and Mineral Development Deputy Minister Jazzman Chikwakwa has said the Government will allow professionals to run mining while it continues to create an enabling environment for the growth of the sector. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":408105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-408104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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