Govt suspends royalties for copper miners

Government has deferred royalty payments for the struggling copper miners, as part of efforts to save jobs in the mining industry, which has been hit hard by weak international commodity prices. When addressing the media in Gaborone yesterday, the minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Kitso Mokaila said the country’s two privately owned copper miners Discovery Metals and African Copper will be saved from paying royalties for up to a year.