Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:05:25 +0000 By BUUMBA CHIMBULU GOVERNMENT is currently holding US$23 million in its Environmental Protection Fund meant to deal with liabilities where the closure process of a mining company has not been followed. Ministry of Mines permanent secretary, Paul Chanda, said the fund was meant to rehabilitate areas where mining activities took place in case an investor abandoned the actions without maintenance. Mr. Chanda explained that these funds were contributions from all operations in mining companies. “Initially, after we nationalised the mines, all of them belonged to Government and we never bothered about these mines so they (investors) just abandon and go the good example is in Kabwe, “Those dumps were just piled up and left so with the current practice where we have introduced a fund to which each and every mine contributes and this money is meant for closure activities in case somebody just flies away and abandoned,” he […]
