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Zimbabwe Deputy-President Constantino Chiwenga has warned machete-wielding artisanal miners who are terrorising communities and other miners that they will face the full wrath of the law.Addressing a handful of people at the International Day of Co-operatives...

A small-scale miner Mr Pilot Chigora aged 41 was killed when a block he and his colleagues were working on fell hit him from the left rib and fractured his left leg below the knee.According to...

Recently there has been intense discussion on Exclusive Prospecting Orders (EPO). This discussions centre on the importance of EPOs to the development of the mining industry and specifically on whether these instruments require to open space...

Last week, the Joint Operations Command (JOC) raided artisanal and small scale miners who were operating in Manicaland in the gold-rich Odzi district in an endeavor to restore sanity after the death of four panners in...

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...

THE Midlands Provincial Joint Operations Command (JOC) has been tasked with effectively dealing with the “maShurugwi” menace in order to bring sanity to artisanal mining in the province.In an interview yesterday, the Minister of State for...

Statistics from police show that in Kadoma, 224 machete-related crimes were recorded from January to November this year.This was revealed by the Justice Minister Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi. He said, “As Government,...

A stamp mill pounds steel against rocks, producing echoes across the pit-riddled fields.Huge boulders, from beneath mother earth, are spread haphazardly alongside uprooted trees.Middle-aged men covered in red soil dust crush rocks in deep pits in...

Zimbabwe may have lost between 30 tonnes and 34 tonnes of gold to smuggling in neighbouring South Africa due to unfriendly mining policies that need urgent addressing, a government minister has said.The development comes at a...

With the new introduction of new versions of $2 coins the country expected some form of failure and disappointment as it usually is and already we have witnessed individuals caught with cash amounting to over $44...

There was a near-death experience for illegal miners at Jumbo mine in Mazowe yesterday after a gang of six machete-wielding thugs, known as Mashurugwi threatened to go on a rampage before being whisked away by the police.The police...

IT is business as usual for miners as their payment system is not affected by the recently introduced SI213 of 2019.This past Saturday government introduces a law that pricing of goods and services in foreign currency...