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The seizure of a Mashonaland East-based gold mine has exposed a well-knit corruption syndicate involving high ranking officials in the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development and part of the investigators from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commision...

Executive Director at Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) Farai Maguwu and MDC Alliance principal Tendai Biti has condemned the government's decision to sell Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) without the consent of the parliament.By Shantel...

Controversial Israeli businessman, Luka Ignatius Fabris, is setting up a multi-million-dollar mineral processing plant at Tafuna Hills in Shamva district, Mashonaland Central.Fabris confirmed the development saying he was undertaking the project with some partners.“This is a...

THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Mines and Mining Development queried the existence of the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) as a state-controlled entity during a hearing on its controversy-laden operations Monday.The committee members argued that ZCDC’s existence...

THE rate at which gold, the country’s biggest foreign currency earner, is being illegally smuggled out of the country is worrying.According to official statistics, Zimbabwe is losing at least US$100 million worth of gold every month,...

WHILE deliberations continue over joining an international group formed to reduce corruption in mining countries, Zimbabwe continues to lose billions of dollars from the smuggling of extracted resources, including gold, diamonds, oil and gas.Queried over the...

A 22-year-old Masvingo man died after he fell into a disused shaft at Wanderer Mine in Shurugwi Saturday. The deceased, Tinashe Makusha of Hwede Village under Chief Zimuto in Masvingo was walking from Vital Tuckshop in Shurugwi...

The Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has welcomed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's initiative to register all Artisanal Small-scale Gold miners.This was after RBZ governor Dr John Panonetsa Mangudya told the National Assembly Portfolio Committee on Environment,...

CHANCES of finding three trapped gold miners alive are now very slim, more than a week since a tunnel they were working in collapsed in Shurugwi.The three have been trapped underground since last Sunday.The Shurugwi District...

Zimbabwe's Apex bank will allow large-scale gold mining companies to directly export a portion of their bullion, an official said, as the bank gradually eases its control of gold trading in the country.The Reserve Bank of...

Congolese authorities have seized 31 kg of gold, worth around $1.9 million, in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the country’s northeast, in a rare loss for smugglers who fraudulently bring tonnes of Congolese gold into the...

The Kimber Processing (KP) is neglecting and failing to protect people against new forms of conflicts affecting the diamond sector, Kimberley Process Civil Society Coordinator and Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Deputy Director Shamiso Mtisi said. Anerudo...