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    "content": "(Hon. Salim Mvurya): Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir and hon. Members. Mhe. Maanzo, thank you for the question. First of all, we have dichotomized minerals into industrial and construction. Copper falls within the 14 minerals that we have zoned as strategic. What we are doing with strategic minerals is that; we have sent our teams on the ground to finalise the ground truthing. By 30th June, we will have covered 24 counties. On copper specifically, the potential in our country is very huge and inspiriting. Starting from Chyulu Hills to Kathonzweni where I visited, part of Kitui North to part of Tharaka areas around Kithiori. We are now working with several investors who have made applications. However, as I said earlier, we do not want investments that are going to take away our raw material. We want investments that are also going to take care of the value chain. Right now, we are in that process. Away from that, we are firmly dealing with illegal mining across the country. It is only that the weather has not been conducive in other areas but if there are illegal miners of copper, we should be clamping on them anytime. However, the process we are taking is to make sure that we do not just entice investments in mining but also, look at value addition."
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