ZAMBIA: STRIKE PARALYSES COPPER MINES AS PREPARATIONS ARE MADE TO OPEN A NEW MINE.

Record ID: 342011

  • Title: ZAMBIA: STRIKE PARALYSES COPPER MINES AS PREPARATIONS ARE MADE TO OPEN A NEW MINE.
  • Date: 4th April 1966
  • Summary: 1. CU NCHANGA SIGN PAN TO DESERTED ENTRANCE TO MINE 0.12 2. LV DESERTED WORKS 0.20 3. LV PAN..ACROSS IDLE EARTH-MOVING EQUIPMENT 0.32 4. SCU TRACTOR 0.34 5. LV REVERSE PAN ACROSS EQUIPMENT 0.38 6. LV CRANE IDLE 0.40 7. CU DITTO 0.42 8. LV HEADGEAR OF TWO SHAFTS 0.51 9. ME MEN WORKING ON ROAD 0.54 10. LV MINE OPERATION AROUND SHAFTS 0.56 11. LV FOREST AND TREES PAN TO WORKING AT DRILL 1.08 12. CU DRILL COVERING UP 1.10 13. MV WATER SPOUT 1.11 14. HIGH ANGLE..OF DRILL 1.16 15. REVERSE ANGLE.. PLATFORM AGAINST TREE-TOP OF DRILL 1.18 16. MV WORKMEN AROUND DRILL 1.22 17. CU DRILL AND WORKMEN 1.25 18. LV WORKS 1.27 19. LV DRILL EQUIPMENT 1.29 20. CU DRILLING 1.32 SCENES REFLECTING THE STRIKE AT THE NCHANGA MINE, NEAR CHINGOLA IN THE COPPER BELT; THEN A LOOK AT EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW MINE AT MIMBULA, ALSO NEAR CHINGOLA. Initials JT/VS/CCT/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th April 1966 13:00
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  • Location: NCHANGA AND MIMBULA - ZAMBIA
  • Country: Zambia
  • Reuters ID: LVAACI5W2TIMI42EHPOF7C5ZVQ42
  • Story Text: A WILDCAT STRIKE BY AFRICAN WORKERS HAS VIRTUALLY PARALYSED ALL COPPER MINES IN ZAMBIA, THE MAINSTAY OF HER ECONOMY. THE MINERS ARE PROTESTING AGAINST THE ALLEGED DISPARITY IN WAGES PAID TO EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN WORKERS. MEANWHILE, WORK IS GOING AHEAD DEVELOPING A NEW MINE WHICH WILL PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT FOR ABOUT 450 PEOPLE.

    THE STRIKE INVOLVES MORE THEN 20,000 MINERS. IT SPREAD TO ALL MINES TODAY (MONDAY) DESPITE APPEALS BY UNION LEADERS FOR THE MEN TO GO BACK TO WORK. THE COST TO THE MINING COMPANIES, THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CORPORATION AND ROAN SELECTION TRUST, IS ESTIMATED AT GBP750,000 A DAY. MEANWHILE, THE GOVERNMENT IS TO SET UP A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY TO LOOK GOVERNMENT IS TO SET UP A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY TO LOOK INTO CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT FOR THE AFRICAN WORKERS.

    WHILE THE MINES LIE IDLE, WORK IS GOING AHEAD ON DEVELOPING A NEW MINE. GEOLOGISTS ARE BUSY SINKING SHAFTS TO FIND A SUITABLE DRILLING SIT FOR THE MAIN SHAFT. TESTS SO FAR INDICATE A GOOD QUALITY GRADE OF ORE.

    THE MINE IS BEING DEVELOPED AT A COST OF MORE THEN GBP5 MILLION BY THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CORPORATION. IT HOPES TO REACH PRODUCTION WITHIN TWO YEARS. IT WILL YIELD AN ESTIMATED 32,000 TONS OF COPPER A YEAR, ABOUT ONE-TWENTIETH OF ZAMBIA'S CURRENT PRODUCTION.
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