Some assets at Kilembe mines have mysteriously gone missing while the limestone site at Hima, which formed part of the concession, and the copper smelter were largely ignored during a four-year period where Tibet-Hima's capital investment is said to have been below expectation, the report of the Kilembe Winding-Up Commission reveals.
The commission also suspects Tibet Hima, the Chinese consortium that won a 20-year concession for the Kilembe copper mines in 2013, clandestinely tried to smuggle mineral concentrates out of the country after government blocked a planned exportation of 30,000 tonnes of minerals.
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