Most Konkola miners in Zambia end strike -official
LUSAKA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - The majority of the 1,500 miners on strike at Zambia's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc (VED.L) resumed work on Friday, allaying fears of huge output losses, the company said.
KCM spokesman Rahur Kharkar, said operations at the tailings leach plant, Nchanga underground mine and the concentrator had resumed after the employees reported back for work.
"The situation is absolutely normal. More than 90 percent of the workers have reported back for work," Kharkar told Reuters.
Kharkar said salary rise negotiations, which had been suspended on Wednesday, following the work stoppage and rioting by the miners, would now resume, but he gave no specific date.
Only the automated smelter had been operating at the mine in Chingola, 380 km (236 miles) north of Lusaka during the two-day strike, which KCM said was a premature action as management and the union were still negotiating salary rises.
Kharkar said production losses at KCM, which plans to produce 305,000 tonnes of copper in 2009, were not yet known.
KCM, which operates the Konkola copper mine, the satellite Fitwaola mine and the Nampundwe pyrite mine, has also started reclaiming refractory ores at the Nchanga open pit to produce more copper. (Reporting by Chris Mfula; Editing by Keiron Henderson
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