POLICE in Ndola have confirmed that they stopped a crowd of over 1,000 citizens at Kantolomba cemetery who were illegally mining a material that they suspected to be gold. In an interview, Copperbelt Police Commissioner Pathias Siandenge confirmed that trading of the said material had already begun, with bags selling for K120 to K150 each. He said the police had already cautioned the perpetrators against continuing with the activity. “People are mining there, I can confirm that. Yesterday we went there and we found more than 1,000 people mining. We talked to them, we told them that this is a cemetery so we are requesting you to leave. We have told them that if they don’t want to move on...