$650 Million: To be Injected into the Kansanshi Mine by Free Quantum Minerals in a way to Plait Copper Production Venture in Zambia

By Abdul Rahman Bangura–

NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- In a way to make twice as much of copper production. And in a bid to make an extension of the Kansanshi Mine, to twenty-four years, under the 2023/2024 business calendar, it’s important to note that, the Free Quantum Minerals have endorsed to pump $650 million to the investment in question. Nonetheless, the mining goliath has advised shareholders that the extension of the operation can only go forward, if the company is optimistic of a robust fiscal dynasty, that will in veer around to enact capital availability.

Kingsley Chinkuli – FQM Country Manager General asserted, the most crucial component of starting again projects that slowed and making Zambia’s mining sector attractive to investors is the necessity for an active tax and stateliness government. He noted that long-term private sector investment is anticipating what costs would be for the life of the investment.

“Works on the Sulphide No 3 (S3) treatment plant at Kansanshi Mine, in Solwezi, NorthWestern Province, was halted in 2013 as a result of market conditions and a challenging fiscal environment. The earthworks, foundations, steelworks and the filtration facilities (currently operational) for the S3 Expansion were completed before work stopped,” he expressed. He noted, Mines across the world need continual venture in hardware, exploration, and modernization.

“When the global economy presents challenges, as it can be depended on to do so, whether as part of the global financial crises or else through the so-called commodity super-cycle, it falls to governments to make their jurisdictions the most attractive in which to place their investment,” General Chinkuli noted.

In excursus, General Chinkuli confirmed that, the mining corporation’s annual tax subsidies without the S3 expansion project and MRT non-deduction remaining in place, is totaled to be around $200 million, but if the extension project moves ahead and MRT non-deductibility is removed, the tax subsidies could be well in excess of $300 million and probably loftier the more wobbling on market conditions.

“Indeed, tax contributions over the five-year period are expected to be up to 45% higher with the S3 project, but this would require a competitive tax code for its approval,” he bolstered.

On the same vein, General Chinkuli affirmed, once the project has been finalized in 2024, the mine is required to be eliciting between 220,000 and 280,000 metric tones of copper per annum from 2024 to 2028. And that, the FQM expended over K7 billion in taxes and royalties to the Zambian government in 2018, exemplifying almost 40% of total earnings made by the extractive industry, solidifying its status as the nation’s biggest taxpayer.

For New Africa Daily News Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports,  Africa Correspondent

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