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Vedanta to replace 1,500 Zambian workers with machines

Ana Komnenic | November 02, 2013 | 9:47 pm Base Metals Africa Europe Copper 

Vedanta Resources (LON:VED) announced on Friday that by March it would cut more than 1,500 jobs in Zambia through its subsidiary Konkola Copper, Reuters reports. Kishore Kumar, the chief executive of Konkola, said that automation "may affect upwards of 1,529...

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