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Events/Merger · 1982

Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines formed

Merger, 1982-03-25, Zambia.

What happened

The two state-controlled copper companies were merged into Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited (ZCCM) on 25 March 1982. All its operating divisions had been privatised by 2000.1,2

Why it matters

ZCCM was the vehicle for state ownership and later for the privatisation of the Copperbelt.1,2

Story cards

Around the same time

  1. Katanga declares its secession from Congo

    The copper-rich province broke away as an unrecognised state (Wikidata date).3

  2. China agrees to fund TAZARA with US$415 million

    A tripartite agreement signed in Beijing started surveys of the line.4,5,6

  3. TAZARA construction begins

    Tracklaying was finished by mid-1975 and the line was commissioned in July 1976.4,7

  4. Panguna mine: inception

    Panguna mine: inception.8

  5. TAZARA Railway opens

    TAZARA Railway opens.9

  6. Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines formed

    ZCCM was the vehicle for state ownership and later for the privatisation of the Copperbelt.1,2

  7. Northparkes block cave air blast

    Northparkes was the first block caving mine in Australia, and the Coroner's findings shaped how block caving is regulated there.10,11

  8. BHP leaves Ok Tedi after river damage claims

    It links a miner's exit from a mine to claims over river damage.12,13

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Where next

People

Led byKenneth KaundaThe state merged the two copper giants as ZCCM.14

Events

Came out ofZambia takes 51 percent of the copper minesZCCM was formed on 25 March 1982 from the two state-controlled copper companies.1

Sources

  1. About ZCCM-IH (history) ZCCM Investments Holdings
  2. Copperbelt Province (item Q1131523), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  3. Wikidata item Q1148907 (State of Katanga)
  4. 'Win-win' contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the 'Chinese of today' Journal of Modern African Studies 59(1) (Cambridge University Press)
  5. Connective Financing: Chinese Infrastructure Projects and the Diffusion of Economic Activity in Developing Countries (Working Paper 64) AidData, William & Mary
  6. Wikidata item Q1960 (Dar es Salaam)
  7. Wikidata item Q985822 (Kapiri Mposhi)
  8. Wikidata item Q17060798 (Panguna mine: inception)
  9. Wikidata item Q1432750 (TAZARA Railway opens)
  10. 1999 Northparkes Air Blast case study (Learning from disasters) NSW Resources Regulator
  11. Parkes (item Q605513), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  12. BHP lawsuit re Papua New Guinea (Ok Tedi) Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
  13. Ok Tedi environmental disaster (item Q7081685), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  14. Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation Ltd Encyclopedia.com (reprinting a publisher's reference work)

Pictures on this page: Kenneth David Kaunda.jpg, Unknown photographer (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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