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took up a position of mine secretary in 1927. The chief assayer was Jerry Haynes who later worked as smelter superintendent at
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In the 1930s the situation changed completely when mines on the
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The mines use
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Melville working as a chief surveyor at Chambishi made a unique revelation about the original road from Mufulira to Ndola. He said the road went first of all to Chambishi, then bypassed Nkana (Kitwe) by a few miles and continued to Luanshya and then went on to Ndola.
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Chambishi Copper Smelter, BOLO Mining, SINO Metals Leach Zambia, JCHX Mining Construction Zambia Limited, Fifteen MCC Africa Construction, REBA Industrial Co-operation are some of the major firms that have established operation at the facility.
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Never a large mining township by Copperbelt standards, Chambishi nevertheless was a happy and largely self-contained little township during its brief existence aptly described by those who lived in it as ‘’one happy family’’.
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in 1899 and rediscovered in 1902, the mining camp was not born until 1927 when the board of Selection Trust Limited in London approved a development programme and drilling started.
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