MINING
This is being extracted using a leach process , solvent extraction and electrowinning .
Each of those businesses thus has a different profile . “ By setting them up separately under dedicated leadership , we have given them a lot of discipline and focus into how they should be managed today and into the future .”
So most of his first year was spent in setting this new direction and aligning 16,000 employees into a new vision . The next phase , he said , will be one of systematisation , through IT and through human capital . “ We are very much focused at present on our people , identifying talent , getting the right talent in the right place , the right skills in the key areas and making sure people are communicated to effectively and rewarded as they expect , both in terms of pay and in career development .” Energy is a big issue in the Copperbelt , where all the operators struggle to cope with erratic , and increasingly expensive , supply from an over-stretched national grid . Now there is a suggestion that load shedding , planned outages , will be introduced . KCM has a very large ( 220MW ) energy requirement to keep its mining , smelting , beneficiation and dewatering operations going continuously , and is the largest power user in the country . It has diesel generation , 24MW at Konkola mine in Chililabombwe and a further 10MW at Nchanga , that can be brought into use if there ’ s a power cut . But backup power is expensive power . Vedanta ’ s portfolio includes 9,000 MW of
“ We have been able to take away some of the complexity associated with moving from the legacy operation into a new construction and operation phase ”
– Steven Din , CEO
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