Maamba
Maamba is located in Zambia
Maamba
Coordinates: 17°22′00″S 27°09′00″E / 17.366667°S 27.15°E / -17.366667; 27.15[1]
CountryZambia
ProvinceSouthern
DistrictSinazongwe

Maamba is a town located in Sinazongwe District in the Southern Province, Zambia. It is about 35 kilometres south-west of Sinazeze and about 250 km south-west of the capital city of Zambia, Lusaka.[2]

Maamba is a coal mining town with about 13000 residents.[2]

History

Maamba gets its name from the Lozi Tribe, meaning talkative person.

Maamba Coal Mine

Maamba is the home to the largest Coal Plant in Zambia at 300MW, built for U$750million and operated by Maamba Collieries Limited (MCL) which as of 2010 is 100% owned by Nava Bharat Ventures Limited (NVBL) of India.[2][3][4]

In 2021, Maamba Collieries Limited announced they were interested in increasing the capacity from 300 to 600MW.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Maamba, Zambia at GEOnet Names Server
  2. 1 2 3 Lusaka Times (16 May 2013). "maamba-power-plant-to-end-perpetual-load-shedding-scott". lusakatimes.com. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  3. ↑ telanganatoday (22 March 2022). "telangana-nava-bharat-plans-100-million-investment-in-phased-manner". telanganatoday.com. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  4. ↑ Lusaka Times (11 January 2020). "maamba-collieries-power-generation-back-to-100-capacity". lusakatimes.com. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  5. ↑ Lusaka Times (19 December 2021). "maamba-collieries-ready-to-increase-power-generation-by-100". lusakatimes.com. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
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