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THREE men from Bulawayo have been arrested after they were allegedly caught prospecting for gold along Umguza River.Simion Mudenda (32) of Cowdray Park suburb was in the company of Ferdinand (36) and Muzomuhle Wabayi (27) both...

14 illegal miners were arrested at Jumbo Mine in Mazowe today with 11 machetes and 423 explosives. Four rolls of copper wire and nine hammer mills were recovered.More to follow....

Two Guruve artisanal miners drowned in Dande River while running away from security guards chasing them at Eureka Gold Mine.Mashonaland Central provincial police spokesperson Inspector Milton Mundembe confirmed the incident which claimed the lives of Learnmore...

The Forestry Commission has called on the government to come up with legal reforms that will pave way for the co-existence of mining and forestry management.Provincial Forestry Commission extension manager Philip Tom, made the remarks while...

NOTORIOUS fortune seekers, mostly gold panners, have announced themselves on Harare’s door step.The illegal miners have set up camp at Kintyre Estates, where they are tearing into a mountain supporting the walls of Lake Chivero.As a...

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...

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...

Security officials have raised alarm over an exponential increase in illegal panning activities in Chiadzwa diamond fields with more than 3000 panners arrested this year only.Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief security over Ellias Mvere told...

The menace caused by gangs of machete-wielding criminals infamously known as “MaShurugwi” took centre-stage at a high-level government meeting amid concerns that the miners were terrorising villagers, it has been learnt.Artisanal mining was decriminalised a few...

Villagers in Pfungwe are up in arms with illegal miners who are destroying the environment in search of tantalite mineral.In a movie-like style, the illegal miners ransacked parts of Sowa area before they were intercepted by...

Bindura Town Council has refuted the social media claims that the town's water tanks and reserves were poisoned by illegal miners popularly known as Mashurugwi, Mining Zimbabwe has learnt.Rudairo MapurangaSpeaking to Mining Zimbabwe Bindura town council...

Great Zimbabwe University's Mashava campus has been invaded by illegal miners who are alleged to be patrolling at night with machetes , also alleged to be panning gold at the campus' residential areas.Rudairo  MapurangaAccording to a...