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Musukuma, a former Zanu PF director of information, through his company Minerals Identity (Private) Limited made an urgent chamber application compelling the courts to grant him a spoliation order to proceed with operations on the disputed...

A Bulawayo miner lost US$23 000 to three unidentified bogus anti-corruption commission officers early this month. According to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) official Twitter handle, the victim was duped by the three unknown men who presented...

Mounds of black chrome shimmer along the highway that runs through this area, as mine workers labour near heavy machinery marked with Chinese writing.The workers toil about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the road, at a...

Two local women who were allegedly shot by police in the coal mining town are battling for their lives in hospital with one of them transferred to a private facility in Bulawayo due to the seriousness...

An illegal artisanal miner from Redcliff died after he was severely beaten by a gang of machete-wielding gold panners who are believed to have been working with a mine owner in Banacort, Redcliff resettlement areas.It has...

 The alleged syndicate involved two Zimbabweans Isaac Nhamo and Shadreck Pungurume, two Mozambicans Zacarias Wilstine and Mamodou Boye, and Democratic Republic of Congo national Hassane Kane.A FIVE-MEMBER illegal diamond buying syndicate was recently busted and brought...

City management has warned of a ticking health bomb as rampant artisanal gold mining activities are heavily polluting the municipality’s water source in Mutasa District.Finance director Blessing Chafesuka recently revealed that the quality of water drawn...

The national lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the Coronavirus has impacted negatively on the gold sector, lowering production and spiking cases of gold smuggling, a new report by a civic watchdog Centre for Natural...

Two illegal gold panners died on the spot while another escaped with minor injuries after a shaft they were working in Kwekwe collapsed on Tuesday.  Police confirmed the incident. “Police are investigating the death of two gold...

The government last year launched a strategic roadmap to the achievement of a US$12 billion mining industry by 2023 as it ramps up efforts to increase the sector’s contribution to the economy.By Dumisani NyoniUnder the US$12...

Primary producers of gold in the country would have felt some respite in the wake of the inaugural Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency auction, held on the 23rd of June 2020, when it was...

Zimbabwe Miners Federation and Chinese embassy released statements on the shooting incident at a Chinese owned mine in Midlands."Please be advised that Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) is making a follow up of an incident where a...