Jumbo Mine

Energy minister and Mazowe South legislator Fortune Chasi (Zanu PF) has paid tuition fees for 1 200 pupils from underprivileged families in his constituency as the community bears the brunt of the closure of Jumbo Mine.
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Twenty-six illegal miners were recently arrested in Mazowe under Zimbabwe Republic Police’s “Operation Chikorokoza Ngachipere”.
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Two police officers from Chikurubi Support Unit were last week arrested for abuse of office after escorting a team of illegal miners to prospect for gold at Stories Mine in Mazowe.
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Police have sealed off Jumbo Mine in Mazowe, a move aimed at restoring sanity to the area which has been invaded by thousands of illegal miners from across the country.
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AT least 10 artisanal miners died while illegally mining gold at Jumbo Mine in the Mazowe area during the past two months, while 265 were arrested for illegal prospecting or loitering, and 26 cases of assault were reported.
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By Debra Matabvu A stamp mill pounds steel against rocks, producing echoes across the pit-riddled fields. Huge boulders, from beneath mother earth, are spread haphazardly alongside uprooted trees. Middle-aged men covered in red soil…
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It reads like a movie script but this is a place where sex workers fear being raped and robbed. They fear contracting sexually transmitted infections and HIV but they are glued there for the love of money at the expense of their lives and…
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Police here have named three people who are among eight illegal gold miners who died when an explosive went off at Metallon Gold’s Jumbo Mine on Sunday evening.
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Eight illegal gold miners died while one sustained serious injuries and two escaped unhurt on Sunday evening when an explosive suspected to be a dynamite went off underground at Metallon Gold’s Jumbo Mine in Mazowe.
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