Ultimately ZEMA are the "experts" razor, do you not expect them to ask questions, stipulate conditions?
SP - they need to get Hunnan to sign up to something very soon I would think.
In the options they suggested the Ndola area was saturated, makes you wonder what now is happening there, hope its not going to drift the same way as Chingola.
They could give them the go ahead on the copper only? Did you notice they are not putting a plant at Ndola (in the considered options). So are they going to allow them to transport hundreds of thousand of tons from c120miles away through Kabwe. Seems crazy. More realistically they will have to do their own DFS on the sable zinc local stock piles. That appears an option but again need more detail.
Didn't see any DFS figures for the leachplant tailings, have they published that? I may of missed it? Will ZEMA?
They may give the go ahead as they are likely under a lot of political pressure but what conditions will the put on any permission given It could be a bit of a poison chalice. Lets hope they have/can show significant financial backing, although a few "in the know" think thats not a problem.
They have made an open end commitment to leave the site clean, no value put on that? All this eats into the final profit figure, need more details tbh.
Whats supposed to be happening with the non jorc (lower content but still significant) Leach Plant tailings (c3,000.000tons) left? c$1.25m will not be enough to lower the contained metal there to a safer level.
Allowed c$250k/yr for enviro monitoring but no figures on the work required to actually achieve the method statement put forwardto ensure no further pollution released during the work. Should be a prelim sum for this on top of the monitoring and that could be a significant figure.
havent got a scooby what all that is about