Beltz Mining: The next copper developer

Nkandu Beltz founded Beltz Mining in 2019 to positively impact the social and economic landscape of Zambia. 

Behind every business is a story worth telling.

This is especially true for Beltz Mining and its founding director Nkandu Beltz, who began her career in media and communications.

�I studied journalism and news writing, and I�ve worked with different media houses in Australia and Africa,� Beltz told Australian Mining. �I�ve also completed numerous business courses and a human behaviour course.

�There were a couple of reasons I went into the mining sector, one being justice for my people. I come from Zambia�s Copperbelt Province. I grew up in Ndola, which is the heart of the Copperbelt.

�Even though Zambia is the second-largest producer of copper in Africa, and was the fourth largest globally at some point, it remains one of the poorest countries on Earth.

�I felt I kept on telling the story; people would listen to it and then they would go back to their lives. I thought �This is my home, these are my people, I�ve got access to land, I come from a copper country and I live in Western Australia, the mining capital of the world�. So why not connect the two?�

From that beginning, Beltz Mining was born in 2019