Vedanta postpones listing of Zambia copper assets to 2011

Stock market volatility has prompted India-based resources group Vedanta Resources to postpone the planned LSE-listing of its Zambian copper assets, held by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), to next year. On November 16, the group announced that it...

Vedanta to list Zambia copper assets on LSE

India-based resources group Vedanta Resources plans to list its majority-owned Zambian copper assets held by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), on the LSE. The group announced on Tuesday that it would seek admission for the ordinary shares of a new...

Vedanta’s Konkola copper mine reports lower Q1 output

London-listed Vedanta Resources said on Friday that first-quarter integrated copper production at its Konkola Copper Mines declined by 11%, after a national power grid failure in Zambia. Production dropped to 34 000 t in the quarter ended June...

Vedanta reports strong first-half production results

London-listed Vedanta Resources has significantly boosted production at the majority of its operations, as well as its sale of electricity, in the second quarter of the 2010 financial year, while its large capital expenditure projects remain on...

Merger signals growth for pump specialist

Hydrocyclone separation specialist company Krebs Engineers International, with its six wholly-owned subsidiaries, was acquired by Groupe Laperriere Verreault (GL&V), a Canadian company trading on the Toronto stock exchange in November last year.

Zambia plans to regain 500 000-t/y copper crown

Zambia could regain its status as a 500 000-t-plus-a-year copper producer within the next five to ten years, predict government officials and mining companies which have flocked to the former British colony following the privatisation of the giant...

$6bn capex acceleration by world’s largest miner

CEO of world’s-largest mining company accelerates with $6bn capital-expenditure programme

Anglo American’s new CEO, Tony Trahar, has an . . . Eight-pronged global plan for the natural-resources colossus

He’s not a ‘lumberjack’ but he’s still ‘okay’, and he claims not only to be working ‘all night and all day’, but on a 24-7-365 basis (for the uninitiated, that’s basically all the time)....