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De Beers and Vast Resources will be allowed to explore for diamonds in Zimbabwe, which would make them the first listed companies to mine there in that sector for two years, Mining minister Winston Chitando said.
Diamond producer De Beers says it has started an operation to move 200 elephants from its game reserve in South Africa to Mozambique. The elephant population at the private Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve was too high, and risked causing extensive damage to the ecosystem, the firm said.
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.
Legal wrangles over the ownership of Shabanie Mashaba Mines are stalling the revival of the once vibrant asbestos mining firms, a Cabinet minister has said. Mines Minister Obert Mpofu last Friday said the government-controlled Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation was ready to resuscitate SMM.
Does Obert Mpofu think that his personal accumulation of wealth, assets and the creation of a massive business empire in Zimbabwe is going unnoticed? This is an African State, there are no secrets writes MP Eddie Cross.
De Beers high-quality diamond retail arm Forevermark will not sell any diamonds from Zimbabwe’s controversial Marange fields, CEO Stephen Lussier said at the launch of the exclusive brand in SA.