Rio Tinto

Legend has it that George “Mastermind” Shaya never missed a penalty for almost a decade, from 1969 when he won the inaugural Soccer Star of the Year award until 1977 when something special happened at Rufaro.
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Telone (Private) Limited has dragged Rio Tinto Zimbabwe Limited to the High Court after the mining company reportedly failed to pay a $144 000 telephone and rent bill.
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Former Rio Tinto FC and Bata Power utility player, Joe “Maleft” Gomo says he was born to play football.
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British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and two of its former executives have been charged with fraud in the US, accused of hiding losses by inflating the value of African coal assets.
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The string of controversies involving senior members of Rio Tinto has continued, with the mining giant losing its fourth high-ranking figure in less than a year.
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RioZim chairman Lovemore Chihota has come under fire from the company’s shareholders and other interested stakeholders for misleading the nation on the Murowa Diamonds (Murowa) deal. Chihota told the country that global resources…
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HARARE – Zimbabwe announced plans to raise the tax on mining companies for diamond sales in its budget on Thursday and said it was planning a new levy on unprocessed platinum as part of efforts to force platinum mines to set up a refinery…
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Rio Tinto has told Zimbabwe's government it will give up a 51 percent stake in its local diamond unit Murowa, state media reported on Saturday, making it the first foreign-owned firm to voluntarily comply.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's central bank said it planned to take punitive measures against foreign-owned banks that resist demands to transfer majority shareholding to local blacks under a controversial empowerment policy.
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE, (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has banned all diamond exports, including from a Rio Tinto unit, until gemstones from its controversial Marange fields are certified by the Kimberley Process, the mines minister said on…
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