ZIMBABWE’S biggest car battery maker, Chloride Zimbabwe, says plans to draft lithium battery production technology into its operations have kicked off to prepare the firm for a future without petroleum-powered cars. General manager Kudzai Pasipanodya told businessdigest this week that for now, Chloride, a unit of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed ART Corporation, was planning for the long-term

WORKERS at Golden Valley Mine in Kadoma Wednesday staged a protest accusing its management of deploying security to use “discriminatory” full body scan on junior workers as they fear it will cause health challenges. The Australian-owned mine is involved in gold mining. However, Justice Chinhema, a representative of the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers

THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has issued Musasa Mining Syndicate in Shurugwi with a seven-day ultimatum to rehabilitate the environment after the company started operating without the mandatory environmental impact assessment certificate. EMA Midlands provincial spokesperson Oswald Ndlovu said the mine was carrying out illegal alluvial gold mining near Mutevekwi River located just outside the

FIVE years ago, Mr Douglas Msipa, the son of the late national hero, Dr Cephas Msipa abandoned artisanal mining/ukukorokoza for farming. The decision baffled many people who believed there was more money in artisanal mining. Furthermore, his choice of specialisation, garlic, appeared to be a poor move as many believed the market was limited. Mr

THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has failed to account for the use of money exceeding US$400 million, while also failing to properly account for 352 583.11 carats of diamonds worth about US$146.3 million which were in stock, raising the possibility that they could have been stolen. In her 2019 report on state enterprises, Auditor-General

More than 3 500 jobs have been created since the establishment of Kuvimba Mining House last year. The Government has a controlling stake in the mining company, which has assets in many parts of the country. Local contractors are benefiting through opportunities created by increased activity. Kuvimba has three operating gold mines — Freda Rebecca,

ZESA Holdings said the power cuts being experienced in the country are due to a technical fault at Hwange Thermal Power Station. Zimbabwe’s power supply has vastly improved, but most parts of the country have experienced prolonged outages in the past few days. In a statement on Friday, ZESA Holdings said efforts to restore normal

The global shift to clean energy is going to drive an unprecedented boom for critical minerals, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), raising questions of supply and the overall environmental cost (AF) Until the mid-2010s, the energy sector represented a small part of total demand for most minerals, the IEA noted in a new

Despite a sage in Covid-19 cases across the globe and the shutdown in major production centres, rough diamonds demand is continuing to grow, signalling a solid recovery for the industry a gemstones, diamonds and mineral trading company has said. Anerudo Mapuranga According to Naurish Diamonds and Gold, a company with more than 30 years of