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HE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Mineral Workers Union (ZDAMWU) has petitioned the Mining Industry Pension Fund (MIPF) demanding that it produces audited financial statements from 2015 to date amid concerns that many miners have not been benefiting from the pension fund. Their petition comes at a time when the mining sector has seen an influx […]

A CHINESE mining company, Freestone Mines has removed its mining equipment from the deforested Dangamvura Mountain in Mutare where it wants to set up a quarry stone mine. The company was forced to withdraw the equipment from the site as irate residents piled pressure against the miner on the pretext the operation was near a […]

RESIDENTS of Hwange are up in arms with a Chinese company, Mutagech Mine, which they accuse of starting operations without consulting the community. Mutagech Mine has embarked on a coal-mining project in Hwange. In the Dinde area of Hwange, villagers have also been fighting a Chinese coal-mining project which is likely to displace them. Greater […]

Gold production depleted by 7% Diamond production was 43% down Rio confirmed plans to commission BIOX Plant in FY’2021 Harare – Recurrent electricity load shedding facing the country and shortages of foreign currency due to backlog on the foreign exchange auction market has weighed on the gold and diamond production for the listed diversified mining […]

HARARE – Zimbabwe exported over US$866 million worth of nickel mattes, which are a composition of platinum group metals (PGMs) during the January-August 2021 period, up 43 percent than the figure of the same period of time last year, data released by Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) shows. Nickel mattes, as classified by ZIMSTAT, surprisingly topped […]

GOVERNMENT is undertaking a restructuring exercise in the Mines ministry and plans to introduce extension officers that will work in communities to regulate mining activities. This follows a public outcry over a rise in conflicts between mining companies and communities. Senators on Thursday last week grilled the Mines ministry over rising illegal mining activities which […]

GOVERNMENT is in process of putting measures to ensure that liquefied petroleum (LP) gas and fuel is sold in local currency, Energy deputy minister Magna Mudyiwa has said. Statistics from the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) show that Zimbabwe is recording a spike in the consumption of gas owing to intermittent electricity supplies. In the […]

New York Stock Exchange-listed Caledonia Mining Corporation will next year spend about US$27m in its Zimbabwe operations. The company operates Blanket Mine in Matabeleland South Province. The development was revealed by Caledonia CEO Steve Curtis. “Due to, inter alia, historic delays in the completion of the Central Shaft arising from Covid-19, the need to remediate […]