IMPALA Platinum Holdings Limited is in talks to buy land in Zimbabwe from rival Anglo-American Platinum Limited as the world’s second-biggest producer of the precious metal seeks to boost output from the southern African country, according to people familiar with the negotiations. The purchase of the claims by the Mimosa mine, which is jointly owned

SINO Africa Huijin Holdings (Private) Limited has dragged Yibang Investments Private Limited to court on allegations of encroaching into its mining claim while posing life threatening dangers to their workers and general public due to dangerous mining methods. Also cited as a respondent in the urgent chamber application is Minister of Mines Winstone Chitando. An

A Mudzi gold panner is battling for life in hospital after he was shot on the shoulder by a fellow panner for demanding back his $50 he had lent the gunman to buy beer. The shooter is now facing attempted murder charges and is on the run after police launched a manhunt for him. Mashonaland

BASELESS and negative reports on the goings-on in the Chiadzwa diamond operations result in the precious gems fetching so little on the international market, Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) board chairperson has said. Only recently, the United States barred Zimbabwe’s diamonds from entering Washington after claims that they were produced with forced labour. Apparently, forced

STATE-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has arrested 3 259 illegal diamond panners in Chiadzwa in the past year, a security official with the state-owned mining firm has said. In a security update presented to the all stakeholders diamond indaba at a Mutare hotel on Wednesday this week, ZCDC chief security officer Mr. Elias Mvere

ZESA Holdings yesterday said it is implementing prolonged load shedding following a technical fault at Hwange Power Station. The power utility said it was moving to Stage 2 load shedding that has previously seen customers going for up to 18 hours per day without electricity.  Before the latest technical fault at Hwange Power Station, power

CEMENT producer PPC’s shares slumped more than a fifth in early trade last Thursday after the company said interim earnings could fall more than 80% because of low demand for its products in SA and shortage of foreign currency in Zimbabwe. This shines the spotlight on the challenges that PPC’s new CEO Roland van Wijnen,

WOMEN have been urged to be more knowledgeable about mining rights and improve their participation in the sector. Speaking at a women’s mining symposium held recently at a local hotel, Manicaland provincial mining director Mr. Omen Dube, whose speech was read by Mr. Innocent Mapara, said unawareness was the major hindrance to women’s participation in