The use of wire mesh or safety netting can often limit the ability to capture detailed measurements of a rock surface resulting in poor or inaccurate information regarding the movement of the slope. SiteMonitor4D from 3D Laser Mapping uses unique market-leading technology to...
Former MMCZ Mineral evaluator/ Gemologist Eng Clever Sithole officially opened the Silk Road Heart Gemmological Laboratory & Lapidary Centre in Afghanistan recently. The Silk Road Heart Gemmological Laboratory and Lapidary Centre is the flagship centre for value addition...
Caterpillar has announced that an additional 1 billion tonnes of material has been hauled by autonomous trucks using Cat MineStar Command for hauling, surpassing the 3 billion tonnes milestone. This achievement is joined by an expansion of the types of commodities hauled aut...
Researchers from The University of Western Australia, Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Exeter have developed a new mining technique that uses electric fields to extract metals from hard rock ore. The techniq...
Mines and Mining Development Minister Honourable Winston Chitando said mining without an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report is illegal. By Shantel T Chisango Addressing members of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) at the Rainbow Towers last week, Chitando said t...
Zimbabwe needs to improve its regulations on gemstone mining and trading at the same time creating a Gemology Centre which will be responsible for certifying and pricing Gemstones in order to increase our exports of the stones back to yesteryear’s heights, legendary Gemstone...
