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By Darlington Musarurwa As Government pulls the plug on private diamond miners operating at Chiadzwa diamond mining fields in Marange, Manicaland, damning statistics indicate that the rough diamonds only managed to earn the country more…
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Panners reportedly stormed Chiadzwa diamond fields on Monday evening following Government’s directive for all firms there to cease operations since it had taken over control of the concessions.
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By Eddie Cross Diamonds were discovered in the Marange area in 2000 by an exploration team from De Beers Limited. The claims were taken over in 2006 by a London-based company African Consolidated Resources (ACR). ACR revealed the…
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Private aeroplanes that are never searched to quantify volume, grade or value of their precious cargo of minerals, regularly leave the country, bound for Asia.
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An independent organisation working in Zimbabwe’s extractive industry has called on government to halt diamond mining in Marange and institute an audit.
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The cash-strapped ruling ZANU PF government has issued an order to all diamond miners in the country to sell their gems through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ).
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In 1896, De Beers was given a monopoly over any discoveries of diamond deposits in Rhodesia. Over the following 100 years they did little to justify this right and all that the country had to show for this concession to the largest diamond…
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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.
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