By ROGERS KALEROGOVERNMENT will not allow chrome or hand pickers to operate at the Black Mountain following their riotous behaviour on Tuesday, but has instead identified four sites where the slug will be off-loaded for them to operate, Copperbelt Permanent Secretary, Augustine Kasongo, has said.Mr Kasongo said Government had decided to permanently stop chrome pickers from accessing the Black Mountain after a three-hour meeting with the Zambia Police Service and Mine Safety Manager barely a day after they were suspended from operating at the copper ore slug dump for running amok in protest against the two hours that was allocated to them to operate at the site.On Tuesday, irate youths ran amok and damaged several vehicles in protest against the two hours’ time flame that was allocated to them to operate at the Black Mountain, a situation which disrupted operations at the site which had attracted youths from as far as Lusaka.Mr Kasongo told a […]
Hand pickers banned at Black Mountain
