The expectations of having over three (3) million metric tonnes projections for copper’s output capacity or production in the next 10 years is such a welcome idea, given the circumstances that we have reduced some of the risk factors that the mining regime had quite experienced in the last 10 to 15 years where there were some seemingly aggressive policy inconsistencies since 2008, which may have been blamed on market fundamentals as well as policymakers. The red metal (copper) commodity has shown some relatively good performances, as it jumped to 3.3% to settle at $9,507.50 a metric ton on the LME, and this is seen to show a biggest gain recorded so far in just two solid months, hopefully this will be trend to continue seeing going forward, we anticipate that the red metal’s stable prices can support Zambia’s economic fundamentals during the new government’s budget transition period, as it takes down to start stabilising within the course of first quarter of 2022.
Its indeed regrettably to note that Zambia has changed mining tax regime for about 15 times, which has been very unhealthy for the economy, despite receiving a bad shape in 2016. It is however commonly to state that Zambia’s economy at some points came under a serious stress between the financial period of 2015 and 2016 as external headwinds coupled with domestic pressure played a severe card on our economy.