State sues Bolo Mining over unpaid penalties

THE State has sued Bolo Mining Limited seeking payment of statutory penalties amounting to K1.5 million for processing minerals without a licence. According to a statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court, Attorney General Likando Kalaluka stated that after an inspection in July 2017, the Geological Survey Department discovered that Bolo Mining was operating a mineral processing plant without a license. “That somewhere in July 2017, the Geological Survey Department of the Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development conducted an inspection on the operations and adherence of the defendant to the provisions of the Mines and Minerals Development Act no.11 of 2015. During the inspection of the defendant’s mine, it was discovered that the defendant has been operating…...