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Inside Mining Zimbabwe (IMZ) met a youthful most likely Africa's youngest Group Chief Geologist Mr. Patrick Takaedza (PT) who gave us an insight on his line of work and his opinion on Mining in Zimbabwe.IMZ: Good...

Fin24Zimbabwe’s mine houses are considering going off grid to avoid crippling breaks in production, as the country continues to battle unstable power supply.In 2019, Zimbabwe endured up to 18 hours of load shedding per day. At...

GOVERNMENT has set aside $8,5 billion to support electricity generation and imports this year as part of efforts to improve power supply and ease load shedding.A further $500 million will be injected into the economy in...

Zimbabwe’s annual gold output fell 16.8% to 27.6 tonnes in 2019, coming off its record highs in 2018, as producers battled with power cuts and a currency crisis.The country had a record haul of 33.2 tonnes...

These are the top nine gold-rich African countries. 1. Ghana This country is now known as Africa’s top producer of gold. It equally has a number of mines located in different places which re-actively involved in gold mining....

The debate around Exclusive Prospecting Orders (EPOs) has been in public domain for over a year now with many small-scale and artisanal miners determined that EPOs are a malevolence that needs to be dealt with to...

Miners are demanding that the government should reduce diamond royalties to around 7.5% to encourage them to produce more to meet the government’s target of US$12bn mining revenue by 2023.This is after Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube...

Top Eight women in the Zimbabwe mining industry. Orthodox thinkers consider the mining sector to be a very dangerous industry that is not fit for women. However, according to a certain African proverb, if you educate a...

Last month the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa unveiled the USD12 billion road map which aims at developing the mining sector in Zimbabwe to a USD12 billion industry by 2023. The mining sector is already...

The gold industry in the country has been in existence for over 1000 years with one of the powerful early societies, the Great Zimbabwe kingdom and the Mutapa kingdom believed to be gold funded economies. Since...

Zimbabwe’s diamond output is poised for a massive boom after Treasury cut the royalty for diamond mining to 10 percent from 15 percent of gross revenue to reduce the cost of extracting deep-seated kimberlitic gems.Zimbabwe is...

Last month the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa unveiled the USD12 billion road map with aims at developing the mining sector in Zimbabwe to a USD12 billion industry by 2023. The mining sector is already Zimbabwe’s biggest foreign currency earner. Experts and the...