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Mozambique: Chibuto heavy sands extraction halted – Notícias
1:50 CAT | 27 Nov 2024
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Heavy sand mining activities in Chibuto district, Gaza province, have been halted since Friday due to a strike called by workers demanding an end to alleged mistreatment meted out by some senior managers of the Chinese operating company Dingsheng Minerals, Notícias reports.
According to the union committee, the perpetrators are the company’s general director and three supervisors. The workers said they will only return to work if the three supervisors are dismissed.
Dingsheng Minerals neither confirms nor denies the reports of mistreatment, but considers the workers’ demand for payment of wages during the period in which they are idle, unfeasible.
The company, which has more than 600 workers, operates the heavy sands mine in Chibuto district, Gaza province, which can process 10,000 tons of the sands per day.
The company is currently completing construction work on a port in Chongoene to facilitate the export of minerals, which due to the lack of infrastructure of this kind, is handled via the Port of Maputo.
The construction of the Chongoene port, budgeted at over US$300 million, arose from the need to find a way of exporting heavy sands from Chibuto without the high costs of transporting it by road to the Port of Maputo.
Source: Notícias
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