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KCM considering listing on London Stock Exchange
Saturday, 28 May 2011
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Konkola Copper Mines, a unit of Vedanta Resources may list on the London Stock Exchange next month to raise capital for its operations in Zambia and other subsidiaries dotted globally.
Last December, Konkola Copper Mine, through Konkola Resources withdrew plans to list on the London bourse in which it sought to raise about USD 1.1 billion for operational needs citing volatility of the market at the time.
Sources said that the company may return to the bourse by June 2011. It is perceived that the market has now seemingly stabilized and listed was now inevitable for one of the world’s renowned miner to raise equity through the bourse a process cheaper than borrowing from banks and other lending institutions.
Recently KCM, Zambia’s leading copper producer said that it envisions contributing more than one million tonnes of finished copper to the global metal market as the company intensifies plans to develop operations in the country.
Vedanta Resources with 79.4% share in the mines with investments in excess of USD 1.89 billion since 2004 said the company was set to increase copper output to 1 million from a low 350,000 tonnes presently according to company chairperson Mr Navin Agarwal.
According to Konkola News, an in house journal, the company is poised to grow and ensure it develops to levels where it can increase finished copper output to 1 million annually.
Mr Agarwal however mindful that team work, good planning and raising efficiency levels by management and employees are critical to the company's goal of becoming a major global copper producer which would in turn help raise Zambia's total copper production.
Mr Agarwal is optimistic that the target to produce 1 million tonnes would be achieved in due course as set by the Zambian government. The government has set a target of 1 million tones production from 2011 onwards, premised on expansion projects at KCM and other mining houses that include Mopani Copper Mines and China Non Ferrous Metals Africa Corporation.
He urged that KCM to use every means at its disposal to raise copper production and contribute to Zambia economic growth and the raising people's living standards. We need, all of us, to embrace efficiency. God gave us the copper resource underground and if we leave it there, it will be of no use. So we need to extract it.
(Filed by Mr Kapembwa Sinkamba SteelGuru Correspondent Zambia)