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Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) regional laboratory should urgently be set up on the Copperbelt for testing minerals.
This is according to the ZABS Board Chairperson, Mbobe Nyondo, at the Copperbelt Agricultural Mining Industrial Networking Enterprise (CAMINEX) in Kitwe on Wednesday.
Nyondo observed the need to urgently establish a ZABS regional laboratory on the Copperbelt to enable the testing of products at source especially for minerals.
“The proximity to the source would provide ease of access by the mines and other stakeholders who may need to access ZABS testing services,” he said.
Nyondo said this when Mines and Mineral Development Minister Paul Kabuswe, visited the ZABS stand under the Ministry of Commerce Trade and Industry One Stop Shop.
ZABS houses a mineral value chain laboratory in Lusaka where tests are conducted on mineral ores.
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The laboratory was set up under the Mineral Value Chain Monitoring Project as a joint venture with the Ministry of Mines, the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) and ZABS.
The Mineral Value Chain Laboratory is also able to test mineral composition in food, water and other non-food items.
Meanwhile, minister Kabuswe said there was need for further collaboration with the laboratories at Geological Survey Department under his Ministry, ZRA and ZABS through Inter Laboratory Comparisons.
Kabuswe later instructed his ministry to ensure that this collaboration was strengthened.
ZABS is exhibiting at the CAMINEX under the theme Re-ignite, Rebuild and Renew.
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