24 Onshore Construction Company employees in Chingola have been sent back to India for gross misconduct and inciting fellow employees to strike following Monday's protest...

Luiri Gold Limited is pleased to announce that it has finalized its resource updates resulting from the 9,244m diamond drilling programme recently completed at the Luiri Hills Project (Dunrobin and Matala deposits) in Zambia. The new mineral resource estimates show a significant increase in gold ounces...

Zambia's parliament approved an amendment to the Mines and Minerals Act that will increase taxes and abolish existing agreements between the government and mining companies, the Zambian Chamber of Mines said. The bill, which will be signed into law by President Mwanawasa on April 1, will lift royalties...

Dan Haglund argues strongly against the government taking unilateral action through the new mining tax regime at the Mine Watch blog . Excerpt: To sum up, I believe government is doing the right thing reforming the fiscal framework, but it is also adopting a strategy which appears, on the face of it...