THE planned US$1,8 million steel manufacturing plant in Bulawayo through a joint venture agreement between Primetone Investment, a local company and an Asian group companies, Kanku International, has failed to take off due to funding challenges. In February 2019, a
This article seeks to give an overview of the minerals found in Zimbabwe. The country’s mining industry is poised for growth with the Government planning annual export earnings of US$12 billion in the next few years. This sector presents lots
For 62-year-old, Mr David Nhambinda, life has not been what he had hoped to experience on retirement after working for one of the biggest steel producers on the continent. When he joined the now defunct, Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company
Zimbabwe’s failure to formalize and “technocratize” Chrome buying and exporting has led to the exploitation of local miners by buyers who bargain predatorily leaving the miner with very low returns that will not sustain mining development or growth experts have
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has chided the Ministry of Mines for its continued reliance on old topographical maps when an investment of US$20 million could cover comprehensive exploration. Mudenda says Zimbabwe should domesticate the African Mining Vision, a pan
Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco)‘s limestone mining project which currently is at the dewatering stage has secured an off-taker to fund the mining and expansion of the pit. Rudairo Mapuranga According to Kuvimba Mining House (KHM) Chief Financial Officer
Sudden closure or closing of Mines without a proper closure strategy can bring about a host of challenges to stakeholders and communities which includes but are not limited to a rise in poverty, deterioration of living standards, increase in outward
The use of Artificial Intelligence is at the centre of Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO)’s resuscitation as the company is posed to use modern technologies to produce high-grade steel, the company body Chairman Engineer Martin Manuhwa told Mining Zimbabwe.
In an endeavour to ensure workers and stakeholders including communities are not affected by a sudden closure, Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) is developing a comprehensive closure strategy that will see through all problems created by a sudden shutdown
PLAYERS in the metal foundries sector are keen to work closely with the mining industry to enhance production and help the economy to substitute imports through domestic supplies. Given that the mining sector is among the top importers of finished
