UPDATE 2-Pay strike hits Zambia's Konkola copper mine

* Workers are impatient over wage rise negotiations

* Police detain 30 rioting miners

(Recasts with KCM comments, police detentions)

LUSAKA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A strike over wages by workers at Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources (VED.L), halted most units at the facility in Zambia on Wednesday, the company said.

KCM spokesman Rahur Kharkar said a shift of miners involved in the strike at the company's Nchanga Integrated Business Unit had halted operations of the tailings leach plant, Nchanga underground mine and the concentrator.

Copperbelt province permanent secretary Villie Lombanya had earlier told Reuters that only the automated smelter was operating at the mine in Chingola, 380 km (236 miles) north of Lusaka.

"The employees were joined by non-mining fraternity outside the plant area ... 16 houses and three cars belonging to expatriate families were damaged," Kharkar said in a statement.

Kharkar said the workers had also burned two vehicles and demolished shelters for employees of a Chinese contractor at KCM, Zambia's largest copper producer.