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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...

PASSERS-BY along the Gweru-Zvishavane Highway cannot help but shake their heads in dejection as they watch the once picturesque landscape slowly turning into unsightly craters and gullies — the work of small-scale miners scooping out tonnes...

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...

FACTSThere are approximately 100 million artisanal miners globally. Approximately about Plus 500 000 artisanal miners in Zimbabwe as of 2017 UNIDO report. Artisanal and small-scale production supply accounts for 80% of global sapphire, 20% of...

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...

THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) has issued Musasa Mining Syndicate in Shurugwi with a seven-day ultimatum to rehabilitate the environment after the company started operating without the mandatory environmental impact assessment certificate.EMA Midlands provincial spokesperson Oswald...