On 3 February 2014, ZEMA, on unheaded paper, wrote a seven page letter to ZRL’s Zambian subsidiary announcing that the Minister of Lands gave permission for the mining, subject to a number of conditions and on changes to the EIS proposed by ZEMA (there were none included of any technical significance whatsoever), and based on any prescribed conditions which ZAWA might impose. The conditions are all palliatives to what is clearly a political decision, none of them of a technical nature such that they would stop or hinder the mining: They must submit an integrated management and utilization natural resources plan for the mining site within 12 months; ; must undertake an environmental audit not less than 12 months and not more than 36 months after commencement of the mining operation; must submit a decommissioning plan and closure report outlining implementation of all the environmental ... Original letter on savethelowerzambezi.blogspot.com.au