Deputy Prime Minister Prof. Arthur G.O. Mutambara’s address to the chamber of Mines AGM at Nyanga on Developing and Managing the Mineral Wealth of Zimbabwe for Tomorrow.

Five years after the government’s takeover of the diamond fields, many questions remain unanswered. The true identity of the companies mining in Marange remains a mystery and the Finance Minister remains in the dark as to where the diamond revenues are going.

China has been granted “special mining rights” to mine some of Zimbabwe’s controversial uranium deposits by the winding up unity government, in exchange for the Asian giant building a nuclear power plant for electricity and providing military hardware.

LONDON — British platinum miner Lonmin on Tuesday said it had chosen Zimbabwe national Ben Magara to be its new chief executive after Ian Farmer last year stepped down from the role owing to ill-health amid a turbulent time for the company.

HWANGE – Gold deposits have reportedly been discovered at a village cemetery in Mlonga Village 17, Jambezi area under Chief Shana in Hwange District in Matabeleland North Province.

Global Witness today called on EU foreign ministers to strengthen measures which restrict sales of diamonds from Zimbabwe’s controversial Marange region to Europe.

Zimbabwe’s public account is down to its last $217. The finance minister says the country’s finances “are in paralysis.” How can that be? Zimbabwe’s diamond fields at Marange could hold between two and seven billion carats of raw diamonds.

On the 27th of July 2011, I asked the Minister of Mines to make a statement to Parliament on the production of diamonds at Marange for the past five years and the value of that production in 2009.

HARARE – Veterans of Zimbabwe’s 1970s liberation war have set their sights on the contentious diamond money, 15 years after they arm-twisted President Robert Mugabe into a payout that precipitated a national economic meltdown.