Infrastructure developments will grow Zambia copper sector-Minister

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Zambia's mining industry aimed to grow copper production from its current 760 000 t/y to more than one-million tons a year by the end of 2015, said Zambian Mines, Energy and Water Development Minister Christopher Yaluma. Speaking to Mining Weekly on the sidelines of the second International Infrastructure and Invest Convention (IIIC) - which took place concurrently with the Electra Mining Africa tradeshow at the Nasrec Expo Centre, injohannesburg, in September, he highlighted that Zambia had a national plan to extract "as much copper as possible".