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The recent announcement of 100% local payment system had miners outraged. Miners were lamenting for price hikes from US$55/RTGS45 to at least US$80%/20% rtgs and being hit by a 100% local currency payment that's losing value...

ZMDC acting general manager was yesterday thrown under the bus by a witness in the ongoing abuse of office trial involving $168 000.The witness, Garikai Chimhina is the corporation’s former acting general manager who yesterday told...

A South African popular news website reported that Zimbabwean national Frank Joe Moyo, who was allegedly linked to illegal mining, was murdered on Tuesday evening in Limpopo in South Africa.Police spokesperson Col Moatshe Ngoepe said Moyo...

The incident reportedly took place on Saturday night in Colleen Bawn, about 20km outside Gwanda. A Zimbabwe Republic Police Officer, who allegedly led a heist at former Gwanda mayor, Knowledge Ndlovu’s Ettrick Mine and allegedly stole gold...

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...

Delays in carrying out a postmortem for a 25-year-old illegal diamond miner who was shot dead by a Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) security guard has led the family of the deceased to cry foul.Terrence Masendeke,...

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...

EIGHTY-FOUR artisanal miners have been arrested in Umguza during a police blitz on illegal mining in Matabeleland North. The illegal miners appeared in court on Wednesday charged with prospecting for gold without a licence.Thirty four women and...

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,...

The two Bindura suspected illegal miners popularly known as "maShurugwi" who were recently arrested for allegedly killing and assaulting two members of the Army in a scuffle over girlfriends, heaved a sigh of relief after the...