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A BULAWAYO businessman who operates a farm and mine in Inyathi in Matabeleland North province allegedly shot two suspected illegal gold panners who were rushed to hospital after sustaining life threatening injuries.This emerged when Nhlanhla Makuyana...

ONE person died while another was severely injured in Inyathi, Bubi district, Matabeleland North when a gang of about 50 gold panners went on a rampage attacking other miners in the area.In a Twitter post, the...

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...

Inside Mining Zimbabwe with Rudairo Dickson Mapuranga (RD) met the Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Polite Kambamura (PK) (aged 42). Polite Kambamura is also a Member of Parliament for the Sanyati constituency. They discussed...

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,...

THE world's highest grade rare earths producer Rainbow Rare Earths (LON: RBW) has acquired ten mining claims in northern Zimbabwe as part of its mounting efforts to expand operations beyond Burundi, where it runs Gakara, Africa’s...

Shots were fired yesterday at Jumbo, Metalon Mine which is now a hotspot for artisanal miners looking for a quick buck.Our source said they were digging for gold and could not hide their happiness and some...

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...