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DAKAR/LIMA (Reuters) - The deaths of 43 illegal miners at a Glencore facility in Congo last week highlighted a growing challenge for mining companies struggling to secure sites from small-scale prospectors digging for cobalt, copper and...

After implicated by the deputy secretary for ZANU PF youth affairs Lewis Matutu as one of the corrupt individuals in Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has hit back at Matutu calling the ZANU...

Afrochine Smelting is a subsidiary of Tsingshan Iron and Steel Group of China and has chrome smelters in Selous near Chegutu. Chrome mining and smelting company, Afrochine Smelting, has been taken to the High Court by NR...

EIGHT MINERS were reported dead in Mazoe at Jumbo mine owned by Metallon Corporation after detonating explosives in a shaft they were illegally working. Metallon has been forced to put its mines under care and maintenance...

The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Company, ZCDC, has confirmed that its security guards shot and killed alleged illegal diamond miners in Marange last Tuesday.ZCDC spokesperson Sugar Chagonda confirmed the shooting in an interview on Friday. Reports initially received...

Two illegal diamond miners have reportedly been shot dead and scores others injured after security details at the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Company shot at over 300 of the miners at a newly discovered diamonds base in...

THREE miners died in two separate mine accidents which occurred in Maphisa and Colleen Bawn, Matabeleland South province.Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Chief Inspector Philisani Ndebele confirmed the incidents which occurred at Antelope East Extension Mine,...

Henrietta Rushwaya the Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president(and her Executive) is facing another court challenge after the Zvishavane-Mberengwa Mining Association (ZMMA) filed an urgent chamber application seeking to bar her from representing the interests ZMF.This was...

Four suspected armed robbers accused of robbing diamond ore from Chiadzwa after working with rougue members of the ARMY and POLICE were granted bail by High Court judge Justice Hlekani Mwayera.Foster Mukwada (44) from Mhandu village...

FOUR suspected rifle-wielding armed robbers appeared in court facing accusations of stealing diamond ore in Chiadzwa where Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) is operating.Foaster Mukwada, Amato Zivanai, Munyaradzi Charakupa and Brian Marungamise appeared before Mutare magistrate...

A boom gate lowered at the entrance of a community owned mine in Silobela and a stern faced security guard armed with a knobkerrie, his dog strained against the leash in his hand, paints an intimidating picture. However,...

FOUR suspected armed robbers, who since 2017 allegedly connived with members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and Zimbabwe Republic Police to raid the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company reserves in Chiadzwa, appeared at Mutare Magistrate’s Courts...