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Mine Entra 2021 cancelled

Tuesday 21 November 2021 – By Business Reporter HARARE (Mining Index) – ORGANISERS of Zimbabwe’s premier mining , transport and engineering expo, Mine Entra say the 2021 edition of the annual exhibition which had been scheduled to take place from 3rd – 5th of November 2021 has been cancelled. Please see full details below. www.miningindex.co.zw Twitter @IndexMining Facebook @MiningIndexNews LinkedIn @MiningIndex

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- November 2, 2021
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Zimplats, Mines Ministry sign MOU

The Ministry of Mines and Mining Development and the country’s largest platinum miner, Zimbabwe Platinum Holdings (Zimplats), have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see the mining giant invest US$1,8 billion to bolster its operations, including the setting up of a 110 megawatt (MW) solar plant. Presiding over the signing ceremony at State House […]

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- November 1, 2021
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Zimplats plans US$1.8bn investment in mine expansion

Implats’ Zimbabwe-based unit Zimplats last  week announced plans to invest a total of US$1.8 billion over the next seven years towards mine expansion, as well as the establishment of a base metal refinery. The bulk of the funds, amounting to US$386.2 million, will go towards the development of Mupani mine, while the base metal refinery […]

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- November 1, 2021
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Penhalonga community members arrested as they defend their land form artisanal miners

There were violent clashes between Penhalonga residents and scores of artisanal miners working under Prime Royal Africa on Friday the 1st of October. Tension had been brewing ever since PRA entered into a seven-year lease agreement with Redwing Mine which permitted the former to carry out alluvial mining in Tsvingwe and Penhalonga. PRA brought hundreds of […]

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- November 1, 2021
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Six years on, is the Paris climate deal working?

Bucking a depressing trend of failed climate talks, the Paris Agreement marked the first time rich and poor countries united in support of a legally binding treaty aimed at curbing global warming. More than 190 parties pledged to limit the planet’s heating to “well below” 2°C (3.6°Fahrenheit) compared with pre-industrial levels while aiming for an […]

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- November 1, 2021
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UN climate summit starts under cloud after G-20 dodges hard questions

Climate negotiators at the COP26 summit were banking on the world’s most powerful leaders to give them a boost before they embark on two weeks of fraught discussions over who should do what to slow the rise in global temperatures. In the broadest sense, they got what they needed — any consensus was better than […]

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- October 29, 2021
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UK sees no deal coming to eliminate coal at UN climate summit

The United Nations climate talks haven’t even started and host-nation UK is already conceding that a key goal – a deal to end coal burning – is off the table. “It will be hard to consign coal to history at Glasgow,” Barbara Woodward, the UK’s ambassador to the UN, said in an interview Wednesday, a […]

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- October 29, 2021
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Survey: Zimbabwe’s miners are more confident about 2022, but old worries still lurk under

Zimbabwe’s mining executives are more confident of the industry’s prospects next year than they were in 2021, but their optimism is tempered by old concerns over erratic government policy. According to the Zimbabwe Chamber of Mine’s latest annual survey of sentiment among the heads of the country’s biggest mines, “mining executives are confident about the […]

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- October 29, 2021
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Man trapped to death in mine collapse

A MARANGE man was on Monday morning trapped to death in a mineshaft in Penhalonga. Manicaland acting provincial police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Wiseman Chinyoka confirmed the death of Fidelis Kashaya (22), who was trapped at Taikona Mine in Penhalonga on October 25 at around 11am. The now-deceased was reportedly employed at the mine. Chinyoka said […]

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- October 28, 2021
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Zimbabwe miners losing 20% of export proceeds to exchange rate distortions – report

Zimbabwe’s miners are losing 20% of their export proceeds due to a widening gap between the official and black market currency exchange rate, an industry report showed on Wednesday. The Zimbabwe dollar is trading at 93 to the dollar on the official market, but is quoted as low as 180 against the greenback on a […]

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