MINES and Minerals Development Minister Paul Kabuswe says Zambia produced about 1,401 tonnes of cobalt from 2019 to 2024. Kabuswe adds that the country exported about 1,876.7 tonnes of cobalt during the same period. He was responding to a question asked by Chilubi MP Mulenga Fube in the National Assembly, Tuesday, who wanted to find out how much tonnage of cobalt the country had exported and produced from 2019 to 2024. Kabuswe attributed the low production of cobalt to the low performance levels of copper mines in the past. “The amount of cobalt produced countrywide from 2019 to 2024, year by year, was as follows: 2019, 367 tonnes; 2020, 221 tonnes; 2021, 240 tonnes; 2022, 251 tonnes; 2023, 226 tonnes;...
