The price of copper on the London Metal Exchange has increased to US$5794 from US$5760 recorded last week.
In the first week of October this year, a tonne of copper was selling at US$5,719 a drop from US$5,750 during the last week of the month of September 2019.
The three-month high for copper on the London Metal Exchange was US$5826 per tonne.
Copper mining activities accounts for 12 percent of Zambia´s Gross Domestic Product and 70 percent of total export value.