When the United States and Israel struck Iran, markets initially behaved exactly as expected.
Oil surged, equities wobbled, and gold rallied as investors scrambled for safety.
In the first phase of the conflict, gold.
AMID the bustling chaos at the border crossing between Zimbabwe and South Africa in 2008, a microcosm of Zimbabwe’s internal turmoil unfolded.
The air was thick with anticipation, a palpable tension mingling with.
When Chinese battery materials giant Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt acquired the Arcadia Lithium Mine for $422 million in 2021, Zimbabwe saw an opportunity to claim its share in the global electric vehicle supply.
Zimbabwe’s diamond industry is facing its biggest crisis in years, caught between falling prices and the rise of lab-grown diamonds abroad, and the impact of years of underinvestment and mismanagement at home.
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The catastrophic developments at Boterekwa escarpment, where illegal mining activities have transformed a once-majestic natural wonder into a hazardous wasteland, represent just the tip of an environmental iceberg that threatens to sink.
HWANGE is a small town in Zimbabwe which is prominent for its rich coal deposits. According to available data, its urban population is only 40 241, and has remained stagnant since 2012.
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AS the El Niño-induced drought’s grip on Zimbabwe tightens, many children in the countryside awash with gold deposits are increasingly being pushed to work as miners during school holidays.
In Makonde West and.
Over the past year, Chinese companies which invested billions of dollars in the southern African nation of Zimbabwe have begun production and exports of lithium.
This is an important development that must be.
Zimbabwe has Africa’s biggest lithium deposits, but China is acquiring many of the mines and a question mark hangs over the extent to which the local population will benefit from the mineral.
FOR many years, multi-national companies flooded Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke mineral belt, attracted by vast deposits of many minerals.
Many of the companies established mines and mining communities along the Great Dyke, with hills,.
