Mining

KWEKWE – Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Zimasco), the country’s biggest ferrochrome producer with an output of 180 000 tonnes per annum has switched off four of its six furnaces at the Kwekwe plant due to increased cost of power and…
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Former gold mining giant, Falcon Gold has won an appeal at the Supreme Court against a High Court judgement which had ordered them to stop operations at all their eleven claims.
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A controversial gold dealer who was recently mentioned in the Al Jazeera "Gold Mafia" documentary, Scott Sakupwanya’s gold-rich Redwing Mine is located in Penhalonga. The setting up of gold centres in Penhalonga will definitely benefit…
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A Chinese mining company formally opened a $300 million lithium processing plant Wednesday in Zimbabwe, which has one of the world’s largest reserves of the metal as demand surges globally because of its use in electric car batteries.
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The decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime to grant authority to traditional leaders and war veterans to acquire mining titles has been described as a bribe to buy their support ahead of elections.
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Soldiers and police officers guarding the Chiadzwa diamond and gold fields are now a threat in the area amid revelations they are facilitating massive looting and smuggling of the precious stones by artisanal miners who operate their…
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The latest report by Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services on the security of minerals, illicit trading and mineral leakages has confirmed that delay in payments for gold by Fidelity Gold Refiners…
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SHURUGWI - Minister of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Mangaliso Ndlovu has tasked the Midlands Provincial Joint Operations Command (JOC) to monitor Chinese miners in Shurugwi. He said there are indications and…
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After recording massive deaths at his Redwing gold mine in Penhalonga, Manicaland province, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ally Scott Sakupwanya on Sunday conducted a ritual ceremony to cleanse the mine as his company, Better Brands was set…
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