During Zambia's painful privatisation period, the town was
virtually transformed into a virtual ghost town with thousands of miners being
laid off by the Indian run RAMCOZ. During the Presidency of Levy Mwanawasa, the
town however was revived when Luanshya Copper Mines resumed full scale mining
production, thousands got employed although that was to be short lived when the
mining operator ran into financial problems.
However the rise of China brought in another dimension, the
mines were quickly taken over by a Chinese firm. That came with its own
problems. the
