[citation needed] Grey with four prospectors and 25 armed Africans, claimed the Chambishi, Nkana (Kitwe) and Kansanshi copper workings on the southern side of the border.

[citation needed] He died in 1911 at the age of 45 in a Nairobi hospital, Kenya after two of his bullets failed to stop a charging lion on the Kapiti plains.

Another important development was the treatment of lower grade ores using the flotation method by Minerals Separation Limited of London.

Through various agents, Cecil Rhodes, after whom Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) were named, obtained mineral concession rights from Chiefs and as a result, claimed ownership of mineral right in Zambia; his company, the British South Africa Company, retained these until the independence of the country in 1964.

Though copper was discovered at Chambishi in 1899 and rediscovered in 1902, the mining camp was not born until 1927 when the board of Selection Trust Limited in London approved a development programme and drilling started.

When Lewin Tucker arrived at Chambishi, drilling was being carried out and preparations for shaft sinking had reached an advanced stage.

Even though Chambishi could not support a football team as the white population was small, it did however, had its own nine-hole golf course, which attracted golfers from all over the Copperbelt.

Phil Melville working as a chief surveyor at Chambishi made a unique revelation about the original road from Mufulira to Ndola.

In the 1930s the situation changed completely when mines on the Copperbelt faced a series of production cuts owing to the global economic depression.

Only two mines Roan and Nkana, continued to operate at 30% capacity under a quota agreement reached by world's main producers.

Apart from the underground mine at NFCA, another one has been opened at a place that used to be Nchanga Farms called South East Ore Body (SEOB) with an investment of $850 million.

The Food Reserve Agency's branch at Chambishi is one of the largest in country with a capacity to hold a considerable number of metric tonnes of agricultural produce.

Miners at Chambishi Metals use as their referral Nchanga South Mine Hospital in Chingola while SINO ZAM in the city of Kitwe is used by most firms that have Chinese investment.

To this end, Foreign and local companies have set up ventures at the newly constructed Chambishi Multi-Facility Economic Zone (CMFEC) on the Copperbelt.