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.
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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,.
We are just yawning out of the frenzy of the Gold Mafia documentary that was produced by Al Jazeera undercover investigatives and made dramatic revelations of some people who are running the.
IN response to climate change concerns, the world is advocating for a low carbon environment. There are many treks that are being pursued to achieve this.
Road transport accounts for 15% of total.
PARADOXICALLY, despite the prospect of wealth that accompanies the discovery of natural resources in Africa, such endowments all too often impede rather than accelerate development. Zimbabwe is no exception.
Natural resources have been.
Zimbabwe’s quest to harness mining for transformative development is well enunciated in the National Development Strategy (NDS1) 2021-2025. Aware of the challenges to harnessing the country’s mineral wealth for the benefit of.
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Some “lucky” Murowa Diamonds Mine workers have become rich overnight after a well-orchestrated and carefully executed diamond stealing process went on undetected for months leaving some workers millionaires. As a sign of.
By Mukasiri Sibanda
For over a decade, reforms to the Mines and Minerals Act (MMMA), deemed a colonial piece of legislation, have proved elusive. This time around, can the new Mines and Minerals.
