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High Court approves ‘blood diamond’ sale
The Zimbabwe High Court has approved the sale of diamonds from a field plagued by human rights abuses, as Harare moved to defy the Kimberley Process, reports state-run media. The sale of 300, 000 carats of diamonds from the eastern Marange fields was blocked last year by the international regulator after it found that Zimbabwe [...]
MP’s barred from Zimbabwe diamond field
HARARE— Lawmakers investigating alleged illegal diamond mining in eastern Zimbabwe say police stopped them touring the diamond workings. Lawmaker Moses Mare says 13 legislators from both parties in the coalition government spent Tuesday and Wednesday waiting for clearance to enter the Chiadzwa diamond district. Provincial and police officials in the eastern provincial capital of Mutare [...]
Ministry behind diamond miners Parly snub
By Clara Smith HARARE – Zimbabwe’s mines ministry has apparently advised the two firms mining diamonds at Chiadzwa in the east of the country not to cooperate with a parliamentary probe into operations at the controversial diamond field, it emerged yesterday. In yet another bizarre twist to Zimbabwe’s diamond saga, officials from Mbada Investments and [...]
Zimbabwe’s First Diamond Sale
MBANDA Diamonds Mining, a company authorized by government to mine diamonds in Chiadza, has announced that over 300 000 carats of diamonds will go on sale Thursday at the newly converted diamond processing facility at the Harare International Airport. The chairman of Mbada Diamonds Robert Mhlanga said Thursday’s sale will be followed by another one [...]
Govt seizes diamond fields again
By Denford Magora The Zimbabwe government has ordered an immediate stop to the continued mining of diamonds at the Chiyadzwa Diamond Fields in Marange. The reason given is that an “environmental impact assessment study has not been carried out by the mining companies.” But the real reason, I am told, is that one of the [...]
Zimbabwe diamonds auctioned for a song
Chris Muronzi Zimbabwe could have lost millions of dollars in a diamond sale after Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) authorised Sabi Gold Mine to auction gems for a song, businessdigest can reveal. Documents in our possession show that Sabi sold gemstones weighing 31,5 kg (157 968,71 carats) for US$3,50 per carat and realised US$553 [...]
Runway for Zimbabwe diamond field
Andrew Moyo HARARE – A private investor is looking to construct a runway at the controversial Marange diamond field in eastern Zimbabwe to ensure secure movement of the gemstones to a handling facility being built in Harare. A top official of Mbada Investments, which was chosen together with another private firm to partner state-owned Zimbabwe [...]
Govt claims soldiers leaving Chiadzwa
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has started withdrawing soldiers from diamond fields in the east of the country after recommendations by the Kimberly Process and criticism over rights abuses, state media reported on Thursday. The government deployed soldiers at the poorly secured diamond fields in Marange last year to seal off the area and clamp down [...]
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