Bailiffs acting for a local authority in Zambia have seized mining equipment, vehicles and up to 1,000 metric tons of copper concentrates from Kansanshi Copper Mines last week.
The bailiffs, acting on behalf of the Solwezi Municipal Council, seized the goods after non-payment of ground rates worth up to 7.5 billion Zambian Kwacha ($1.5 million) in ground rates. The company's management has been in dispute with the council over ground rates since last year. A Zambian high court judge last week threw out an application for a judicial review of the dispute prompting the authorities to take their action.
Kansanshi, Zambia's largest single copper mine by output, is owned by the Toronto-listed company First Quantum Minerals.
Kansanshi's public relations manager Geoffrey Msiska told local media over the weekend that some of the seized property included 12 trucks bound for Durban loaded with copper concentrates which didn't belong to the mine
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