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Vedanta Chairman’s message for India Independence Day

August 15, 2018

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KCM launches first-ever Safety Stand Down

July 20, 2018

CHINGOLA, 19 July, 2018: Vedanta Africa Base Metals & Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Chief Executive Officer Deshnee Naidoo today launched the first-ever Safety Stand Down campaign in the local mining sector in a bid to raise safety standards and curb mine accidents and fatalities in the company. The Safety Stand Down campaign, comes in the wake of the recent Safe 400+ tonnes daily production focus, which KCM initiated as a springboard to raise production to 12,500 tonnes per month. It also recognises the impact of mine acci...

CEO Steven Din bids farewell to KCM and Zambia

June 26, 2018

Mr. Steven Din left Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) on Friday, 22nd June 2018, after more than four years at the helm of the company. A dinner was hosted in his honour at the Nchanga Directors’ Lodge attended by government officials, KCM employees, community leaders, suppliers and other key stakeholders. Kitwe District Commissioner Binwell Mpundu, who represented the Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Bright Nundwe at the farewell dinner, described Mr Din as a ‘true friend of the people of Zambia, ’who contributed signific...

Vedanta Africa Base Metals Ceo Provides Operations Updates

June 13, 2018

LUSAKA, 12 June 2018: Vedanta’s Africa Base Metals CEO Deshnee Naidoo has provided an update on African operations and reiterated that her focus will be to create deeper synergies for the company’s operations in South Africa, Zambia and Namibia to ensure sustainable growth across the region. Ms Naidoo told journalists in Lusaka that the priority at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), where she is the new CEO, will be to target integrated copper production at 200,000 metric tones in the current financial year...

Vedanta Resources Announces CEO-Africa Base Metals

May 16, 2018

London, 15 May 2018: Vedanta Resources today announced the appointment of Ms Deshnee Naidoo, as the Chief Executive Officer – Africa Base Metals. Ms Naidoo’s appointment signals the Vedanta group’s ongoing commitment to enhancing its African operations, and will seek to identify and drive synergies across these operations in terms of operational excellence, procurement, marketing, people development, and the investment in communities, in line with the group’s vision of business with...

KCM CEO: ‘We can make Zambia a malaria-free country!’

April 25, 2018

CHINGOLA, 25 April 2018: On the occasion to celebrate the World Malaria Day, which falls on 25 April each year, Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Chief Executive Officer Steven Din has said that Zambia can become a malaria-free country through the concerted efforts by the Government and the private sector to eradicate the killer disease. Mr Din said Konkola Copper Mines, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health, has sprayed 54,257 households in Chingola, Chililabombwe and Nampundwe, the highest number of hou...

Vedanta Chairman Anil Agarwal outlines KCM long term growth plan

April 16, 2018

CHINGOLA, 16 April 2028: Chairman of the London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc, the majority shareholder of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), Anil Agarwal, has told employees to feel secure and understand that the company cares for them as it rolls its “Path to Growth” to boost copper production. Mr Agarwal said at a Town Hall meeting in Chingola, which was beamed live via video link to all Vedanta operations, that the global diversified minerals and resources giant would explore ways to introduce a...

Vedanta Chairman upbeat on Zambia’s growth prospects

April 12, 2018

LUSAKA, 12 April 2018: Anil Agarwal, the Chairman of Vedanta Resources Plc, today outlined a Path to Growth for the Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a Zambian subsidiary of the diversified global mining and resources company. The Chairman also expressed confidence in what he sees as the start of an African economic resurgence driven by various metals. Mr Agarwal, who is on a two-day visit to Zambia, where he has attended the India-Zambia Business forum, said Vedanta was fully committed to supporting KCM’s p...

Vedanta Chairman Visit

April 11, 2018

Chingola, 10 April 2018: Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a member of the Vedanta Resources Group, joined Zambians today to welcome the Honourable President of India, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind to the country. India’s President is scheduled to meet with His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu in Lusaka and on Wednesday address an India-Zambia Business Forum. Speaking on the eve of the visit, Vedanta Resources Chairman, Mr. Anil Agarwal, said: “This is the first time in 29 years that an Indian President ...

Standard Chartered Bank Zambia Plc pledges continuous support to the mines

March 19, 2018

CHINGOLA, 16 March 2018: Standard Chartered Bank Zambia Plc Managing Director Herman Kasekende says the bank will continue to collaborate with the mines in order to develop a facility for financing and supporting mine suppliers and outsourced firms. Speaking in Chingola after touring Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) and holding meetings with the company’s management, Mr Kasekende said the financing facility would focus on risk transfer and long-term project financing. The facility would boost and sustain min...

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