
[miningmx.com] – ZAMBIA would attempt to have a revised minerals law passed by its parliament before the end of the year despite the interruption created by the death of the country’s president, Michael Sata.
I’m pushing, that is my deadline,’ said Christopher Yaluma, Zambia’s mines minister, of a desire to have the law passed by the end of the year. He was speaking in an interview with Bloomberg News.
Yaluma missed an earlier target of presenting the bill to legislators during the previous parliamentary session because of changes the Justice Ministry suggested to legal wording, said Bloomberg News. The mines ministry has “cleaned up’ the document, said Yaluma.
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