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The government has approved plans to impose stiffer penalties for environmental offenders as well as avail funds through the proposed environmental levy to support the rehabilitation of rivers that have been degraded by illegal mining activities. Vongai...

The Environmental Management Agency (EMA) says it is yet to receive an environmental impact assessment report from Heijin Mining Company, a Chinese mining company, which is on the verge of displacing several villagers from their ancestral...

A number of criminal activities have been linked to illegal miners who are looking for alternative ways to earn a living.Vongai MbaraAddressing miners from Zimbabwe Miners Federation Mashwest Province in Kadoma yesterday, Officer Commanding District Chief...

Illegal mining activities in Matebeleland South’s Esigodini area have led to increased Gender-Based Violence, GBV cases as well as child pregnancy.Vongai MbaraBulawayo based Women Institute for leadership, WILD had a meeting with Esigodini residents where these issues...

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Wednesday in an effort to stop the rising of illegal mining in village 5 Lornekope Kadoma, recovered abandoned mining equipment which includes four windlasses, a 30-kilowatt generator, and Jackhammer.Anerudo MapurangaThe...

Illegal gold miners in Umguza District are putting the lives of villagers and livestock in danger by using prohibited lethal chemicals such as mercury in search of the precious mineral.Boitumelo MakhuraneAccording to scientific studies, mercury is...

Three Zimbabwean men and a South African national have been arrested by police in Limpopo province who found them with three truckloads of chrome believed to have been illegally mined.Limpopo provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo...

TWO illegal gold panners died in separate mine accidents in Matabeleland South Province, police have confirmed.Acting Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson, Assistant Inspector Thabani Mkhwananzi said the incidents occurred on Friday and Saturday at Bolo Mine...

POSSESSION of copper cables without a valid licence will soon attract a mandatory 10-year prison sentence without the option of a fine, under new regulations meant to deter vandalism of key utilities.The Copper Control Act is...

Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Deputy Director and Kimberley Process Civil Society Coordinator Mr. Shamiso Mtisi referring to South Africa’s draft artisanal and small-scale Mining Policy said formalization might be the solution in reducing challenges of...

Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) earlier this month in an effort to stop the involvement of juveniles in illegal mining activities at the Chiadzwa diamond fields held an All Stakeholder Community Engagement meeting at Gandauta Secondary...

Environmental groups in the north of Myanmar say a surge of illegal mining for rare earths has occurred in Kachin State close to the Chinese border since the coup on February 1. Activists have complained about a...