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Zimbabwe’s gold artisanal and small-scale miners have demanded more incentives from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to ramp up production. In June this year, RBZ through Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) introduced new measures such as the 5% incentive for miners who deliver 20kg plus to Fidelity and spot payments to improve gold figures […]

London Stock Exchange-listed resources firm, Contango Holdings, is set to start production at its Lubu coal mining project in Matabeleland North Province after receiving impressive set of results from exploration. Bureau Veritas of South Africa conducted the geological assessment. The analyses assessed a variety of metrics and properties derived from 49 samples extracted from the […]

The Mines ministry has given notice to cancel Chinese mining company Heijin’s certificates of registration by December 6 this year, following an uproar by villagers who are set to be displaced by its mining activities. Heijin’s claims that face cancellation by the Mines ministry include the Kaseke claim, registered under ME1256BM and Chibvi 2, registered […]

THE Australian firm exploring for gas and petroleum resources in Zimbabwe’s Muzarabani district this week said the quality of data coming out of swathes of their claims in the Zambezi Valley had surpassed previous survey results provided by Mobil from its 1990s survey. This marked the first good news by the Australian Stock Exchange-listed Invictus […]

ZIMBABWE’S ruling Zanu PF and 16 fringe opposition parties under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have requested the United Nations (UN) to help it resume international trade in diamonds, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. Gems from the Marange diamond fields have been excluded from big international markets under a damaging global embargo announced by the […]

ARTISANAL miners have been blamed for causing the spread of HIV and tuberculosis in Matabeleland South province. Matabeleland South TB/HIV officer Norbert Singine told Southern Eye that the province has huge mineral deposits, resulting in the influx of artisanal miners who engage in reckless sexual behaviour, causing the spread of HIV in the province. “They […]

DIAMOND producers in Zimbabwe have requested the government to slash royalty rates for the precious stones to enhance viability in the sector. Royalties for diamond producers are currently rated as 10% of gross revenue. But players in the sector have said this rate is too high. They have indicated that the rate has been undermining […]

It was once one of the biggest copper mines in the region, but it is hard to tell with the broken public toilets, long queues for water and crumbling staff houses. In Chebanga, one of Mhangura’s townships, an NGO found over 2000 residents sharing two rundown communal toilets. A sign above one of the facilities […]