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| Officials from Ministry of Mines inspecting the effluent |
It was a struggle to open the huge
pipe.
Two men had to help each other to
release the effluent from this pipe.
The tailings flow on the ground,
through a foot path into a dam.
This dam, which was built by Mopani
Copper Mines, a subsidiary of Carlista Investments Corporation which is a joint venture between Glencore and First Quantum Minerals.
This dam also has an opening which later
releases the effluent into the nearby bush.
Unfortunately, this tailings dam is
illegal according to the Kitwe-based Mine Safety Department, a unit of Zambia's Ministry of Mines which oversees safety issues in the mining industry.
“There is no indication from the Mine
Safety Department that this paddock was approved. Mopani Copper Mines did not
apply for it to be set up here. This is not good for the environment, there is
a nearby stream and am sure it is being polluted,” said Gideon Ndalama, the
National Coordinator of the Zambia Mining Environmental Remediation and
Improvement Project.
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| The illegal tailing dam which Mopani Copper Mines made |
As this effluent continues to flow into
the bush, the fear is that it will contaminate the environment.
Authorities are not happy that
Mopani Copper Mines is discharging the waste without notifying relevant
authorities.
“This is very bad and dangerous.
You cannot be harming the environment like this. I will talk to management,
they need to stop this. There could be acid and uranium here being discharded
into the environment,” said Paul Chanda, the Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of Mines.
Mr Chanda, who made an unannounced
trip to the Nkana Tailings Complex, was shocked to find workers from Mopani
Copper Mines opening one of the pipes to discharge the tailings.
He threatened that Mopani Copper
Mines risks being penalized for deliberately harming the environment.
The workers on site could however
not talk to this blogger as to why they were discharging the effluent.
Efforts to get a comment from
Mopani Copper Mines proved futile as a press query sent to the firm’s Public
Relations Unit was not responded two for a week.
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| Grass drying up in the Nkana Tailings Complex |
However, inspectors from the Zambia
Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) have visited the area and collected
samples to ascertain the contents of the effluent.
ZEMA Corporate Affairs Manager
Irene Chipili says the samples have been taken to a laboratory and they will be
tested soon.
And a check at
the nearby tailings found some trees and grass drying up due to lack of
maintenance.
The tailings,
whose licenses have been given to private firms, have developed craters and holes,
leading to the leakage of red oxide to the environment.
The Ministry of Mines
has since asked the license holders to fence off the tailings to stop the
leakage of red oxide which is harming the environment.
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