A strike over salary by workers at Konkola Copper Mines , a component of London-listed Vendanta Resources, on Wednesday halt most unit at the ability. Villie Lombanya, enduring secretary for the Copperbelt region, said the operation had ground to a stop some units of the KCM in Chingola.

Lombanya told that operation at the concentrator, the underground mine and the tailings leach place have ground to a stop. Only the smelter is working because it is automated.The workers insist higher salary.

It was not right away clear how much copper production would be exaggerated by the strike. The company was not right away obtainable for comment. The state of affairs was very bad the miners burnt two trucks belong to a supplier and shattered window panes.

The miners also loot from the shops within the place and police had to be call in to stop the uprising.In 2008, staff at KCM, which has several projects aimed at raising output, counting the growth of the Konkola Deep Mine Project which it hope to carry on stream by 2010, carried out like action during wage discussions between the unions and management.

KCM, which operate the Konkola copper mine, the satellite Fitwaola mine and the Nampundwe pyrite mine, has also ongoing reclaim refractory ores at the Nchanga open pit to create more copper.