MINES and Minerals Development Minister Paul Kabuswe says Zambia has so much copper that by the time it finishes, everyone living now, including their grandchildren, will be dead. And Kabuswe says the construction of an electric car battery manufacturing plant will commence in the next two to three months. Speaking when he featured on Radio Phoenix’s Let the people talk programme, Tuesday, Kabuswe stressed the need to increase copper production, assuring that the product was more than enough. “We are hovering around, we are still around 850,000 metric tonnes, which we have stagnated at for a long time. It’s one thing that also gives me a lot of motivation, why? Because at some point Zambia, Chile were hovering around 500,000...

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