KAPIJIMPANGA WOES INVESTORS

By Mwila Nsofu:Zambia’s High Commissioner to India Judith Kapijimpanga has called on Kiran Gems Private Limited, the world’s largest diamond manufacturers, to consider investing in geological exploration of diamonds in Zambia.Mrs. Kapijimpanga says Zambia wants to take advantage of all high-income earning gems in order to diversify from copper to grow the economy.She says Zambia has no ready mines for diamonds but that the Ministry of Mines has identified possible spots which call for detailed exploration with the hope of discovering diamonds banking on the facts that Angola and Botswana all bordering with Zambia have diamonds.Mrs. Kapijimpanga said this in Surat City in the Indian State of Gujarat when she toured one of the diamonds manufacturing facilities.And Kiran Gems Private Limited Chairman, Vallabhbhai Patel said the company will table Zambia’s proposal as a board.In a separate meeting, Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council -CJEPC India- Gujarat State Regional Chairman Dinesh Navadiya said he is willing to take two geologists to work with Zambian mining geologists for exploration purposes in August this year.This is contained in a statement released to ZNBC News by First Secretary Press and Tourism at the Zambian Mission in India Bangwe Naviley. Post Views: 4
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