Zambian surge
Zambia’s mining industry is expected to grow to 1.35 billion US dollars by 2015 from 590 million dollars in 2010.
The Zambia Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (ZEITI) 2010 summary reconciliation report says the industry contributed around 11 percent to the country’s GDP in 2010, a number that is forecast to balloon to around 50 percent by 2015.
Copper exports accounted for almost 80 percent of Zambia’s 2010 merchandise exports, according to ZEITI.