Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:03:57 +0000 GOVERNMENT has placed a high premium on the mining industry while at the same time steadily nurturing other critical sectors in the quest to bolster economic growth. Evidently, the diversification programme to agriculture, tourism, construction, energy and manufacturing industries has been receiving a fair tonic thus far. Though copper is a wasting asset, it is still valuable and fetching attractive prices on the international market – London Metal Exchange in the United Kingdom and Shanghai Metals Market in China. Mining has always attracted an eagle’s eye because of the lucrative nature of the undertaking particularly when the prices are high. Copper is now fetching more than US $7, 000 tonnes per tonne. Currently, the country is grappling with security and operational concerns as well as challenges in the conduct of business in which foreign firms are reported to be favoured more than the local companies. Thus the high-powered delegation […]
