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Zimbabwe’s platinum miners will engage a consultant to give advice on the establishment of a base metal refinery by 2025 and a precious metal refinery by 2027 to process platinum from all the country’s platinum mines.The...

Gold mining companies have asked Government to facilitate access to loans needed to increase production and ensure the country achieves its targeted 100-tonne output by 2030.The metal is Zimbabwe’s second-biggest export earner after platinum.Both gold and...

THE mining industry is on the right path and has made significant progress towards attaining a US$12 billion industry by 2023, with key contributors making huge strides in the production matrix.Government envisages a US$12 billion mining...

A CRAGGY dusty road in Deka area in Hwange East constituency, Matabeleland North Province, that links the area to Hwange town and to two of the country’s tourist attractions Zambezi River and Victoria Falls via Jambezi...

The Masvingo Provincial Mining office has been hit by corruption allegations with the Mining Engineering, Geology, and Survey departments sucked in what could be a criminal cartel meant to defraud miners of their mining rights.Rudairo MapurangaThe...

Large scale mining operations in Zimbabwe... Zimbabwe’s mining industry has become the leading horse towards the resuscitation of the economy.Rudairo MapurangaThe mining industry has of late become the country’s largest foreign currency earner with nickel, gold and...

THERE has been a outcry over machete gangs that terrorise mining communities, thereby affecting government’s ambitious US$12 billion mining industry vision by 2023. Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) director Shamiso Mtisi (SM) blames machete gangs and...

Despite being exempted from operating throughout the Covid-19 pandemic period, the mining sector faced several challenges that saw the chrome industry grinding to a halt. Unki Mines, Hwange Colliery Company Limited and How mine confirmed some...

Late last year, the president of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa unveiled the US$12 billion road map with aims to developing the mining sector in Zimbabwe to a US$12 billion industry by 2023. However, mining performance in...

Ten gold miners are feared to have been buried alive at Premiere Mining area along Mutare river in Mutasa District, Manicaland.Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana on his...

YEAR-IN, year-out, lives are lost in Zimbabwe’s mining sector, with corruption and inadequate monitoring of mining activities by the government cited as major causes. For instance, since 2018 several accidents have been recorded; including the flooding of...

Zimbabwe’s hopes for a quick economic recovery and sustainable foreign exchange stability rest on the shoulders of its multibillion-dollar mining industry.By Francis Shingi Nhunzvi and Victor BhoromaBeyond the productivity bottlenecks of the past 2 years, mining...