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Zambia’s 2016, 2017 copper output seen flat at 700 000 t

Zambia’s copper production will be around 700 000 t this year and next year before rising to one-million tonnes in 2018, a top government official said on Monday. Copper production in Africa’s second-biggest producer of the metal inched higher to 711 515 t in 2015 from 708 000 t the previous year mainly due to a new mine owned by Canada’s First Quantum Minerals.