MINES and Minerals Development Minister Paul Kabuswe says most Zambians do not have capacity to start a mine from scratch and invest huge sums of money. And Kabuswe says foreigners are now fighting over Zambia’s dump sites, including the Black Mountain. In an interview, Kabuswe said his recent statement on the Black Mountain being an already baked cake was misconstrued. “You know the problem is that that statement was misconstrued to mean that I’m saying Zambians can’t mine a greenfield mine, that was not the meaning. The meaning was, I gave an example of a cake, now I will give you two tall trees, one is tall, one is short and both have fruits. So you go to the one...

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