The department’s core functions as enshrined in the Mines and Minerals Development Act is the administration of mining and non- mining rights. It has the sole responsibility of overseeing the process of granting and managing mineral licenses throughout the country.
The department’s key responsibilities can be broken down as follows:
The main objectives of the department are:
– To administer all mining rights and mineral processing licenses in accordance with the provisions of the Act and its subsidiary legislation;
– To ensure implementation of the minerals resources development policy
FUNCTIONS OF THE MINING CADASTRE DEPARTMENT
The department is divided into one section and four units as follows:
(i) The Mining Rights Registry – This unit serves as the department’s front office or inquiries and is the first point of call. It is responsible for the receipt and registration of mining and non-mining rights applications, applications for transfers, extensions, reductions, amendments and abandonments. It is the depository of the Priority and General Registers and is also the receiving and dispatch office for incoming correspondence and client notifications respectively. In addition, the Mining Rights Registry monitors and enforces mining and non-mining rights compliance with the Act.
(ii) The Licensing Unit – is the mining and non-mining rights application processing
office and is responsible for verifying that applications and licenses do not overlap and
have the correct spatial requirements (compliant coordinates).
The technical evaluation of applications function also falls within this category. All
applications received once cleared at validation stage have to undergo a thorough technical evaluation by a team of engineers to ascertain the strengths and viability of proposed exploration, mining or mineral processing projects.
The rest of the units are:
(iii) The Systems Administration Unit – which is responsible for the maintenance of the
Local Area Network (LAN), Management of the Cadastre Domain.
The Department runs three (3) integrated systems: Trimble Landfolio system, on-line
Mining Cadastre Transactional Portal and Map Portal systems.
(iv) The General Administration Unit – the section provides support services to the
department which include collection of license fees and area charges, maintenance of
accounts records, procurement of goods and services, management of vehicles,
maintenance of the Mining Cadastre building, general records management and
digitization, file delivery and cleaning of offices.
RENEWAL OF MINING RIGHT AND MINERAL PROCESSING LICENCE.
An application for renewal of a mining right or mineral processing license shall be made:
(i) Artisanal mining, three months before the expiry date of the license;
(ii) Small-scale mining, six months before the expiry date of the license; and
(iii) Large-scale mining, one year before the expiry date of the license; and
(c) For a mineral processing license, one year before the expiry date of the license.
Form XIII shall be used for renewal for the above types of licenses.
(3.) An application for renewal of a mining right shall be in Form XIII.
ALTERATION OF EXPLORATION OR MINING AREA
TRANSFER OR ASSIGNMENT OF MINING RIGHT OR MINERAL PROCESSING LICENCE
but not less than one hundred and twenty days before the expiry of the license; and
ABANDONMENT OF MINING RIGHT AREA
An application for the abandonment of all or any part of any land subject to a mining or exploration licence shall be in Form XVII set out in the First Schedule.
The Director of Mining Cadastre shall,
Where the Director of Mining Cadastre approves an application for the abandonment of land, grant the
Certificate of abandonment.
AMENDMENT OF MINING RIGHT AREA.
An application to amend a mining right or mineral processing license shall, upon payment of the fees set out in the Second Schedule, be made to the Director of Mining Cadastre in Form XI set out in the First Schedule.
Where the application for amendment relates to the inclusion of minerals –
This type of license is only given to indeginous Zambians and registered cooporatives
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The small scale Explorartion Rights are only granted to companies with minimum 5% Zambian shareholding.
The small scale Mining Rights are only granted to companies with minimum 5% Zambian shareholding.
This type of license is only given to indeginous Zambians and registered cooporatives
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The small scale Explorartion Rights are only granted to companies with minimum 5% Zambian shareholding.
The small scale Mining Rights are only granted to companies with minimum 5% Zambian shareholding.
The Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development
New Government Complex Building, Nasser Road
12th & 14th Floor
P.O Box 31969
Kamwala
LUSAKA
email: info@mmmd.gov.zm
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