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- September 23, 2021
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Zimbabwe govt admits mistake in Chinese mine saga

TOP government and Zanu-PF officials on Tuesday descended on Kaseke Village, Uzumba, on a fact-finding mission after a Chinese mining company reportedly took over an entire village to extract black granite. The delegation included Local Government minister July Moyo, Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister Aplonia Munzverengwi, Mines deputy minister Polite Kambamura, Zanu-PF acting Mashonaland East […]

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- September 22, 2021
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China to stop building new coal-fired power projects abroad

China plans to stop building new coal-fired power plants abroad, President Xi Jinping said at a virtual United Nations General Assembly meeting on Tuesday. The announcement came a year after Xi surprised world leaders by pledging to make China carbon-neutral by 2060 after reaching peak emissions by the end of the decade. He has come under pressure […]

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- September 22, 2021
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Botswana Diamonds looks at potential for open cast mining

Botswana Diamonds has successfully completed its nine hole drilling programme on the Thorny River property in South Africa. The objective was to see if two kimberlite blows (the River and River Extension blows were one contiguous orebody, thus increasing the overall resource and improving the commercial prospects of the project. Nine percussion holes totalling 483 […]

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- September 22, 2021
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How lithium can be efficiently extracted from oil and gas wastewater

New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences proposes the idea of rapidly extracting lithium from contaminated water. The process described in the paper is expected to simplify lithium extraction from aqueous brines, potentially creating a much larger supply and reducing the costs of the element for batteries to power electric vehicles, electronics and a […]

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- September 22, 2021
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China to stop building new coal-fired power projects abroad

China plans to stop building new coal-fired power plants abroad, President Xi Jinping said at a virtual United Nations General Assembly meeting on Tuesday. The announcement came a year after Xi surprised world leaders by pledging to make China carbon-neutral by 2060 after reaching peak emissions by the end of the decade. He has come […]

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- September 22, 2021
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Zimasco completes feasibility study for Mberengwa furnaces

ZIMASCO, a local ferro-chrome producer owned by China’s Sinosteel, has completed a feasibility study for the construction of furnaces in Neta, Mberengwa District, where it intends to build new mines, company spokesperson has said. This comes after the company announced a US$35 million investment for the construction of new furnaces at its Kwekwe smelting complex […]

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- September 21, 2021
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Zimbabwe, British firm signs accord to build US$1.3 billion fuel pipeline

Government through the National Oil Infrastructure Company (NOIC) of Zimbabwe has entered into a joint-venture agreement with Coven Energy Limited to kickstart the construction of a US$1.3 billion second fuel pipeline from Beira to Harare. The project which will see NOIC and the British-based Coven Energy entering into a 50:50 Public-Private Partnership is meant to […]

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- September 21, 2021
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Mimosa co-parent strikes US$490 million lithium joint venture deal

Deal “essential for transition to a cleaner future” Sibanye has agreed to subscribe for a strategic placement of new ordinary shares in “ioneer” equal to 7.1% of ioneer’s placement shares for US$70m Rhyolite Ridge is expected to be one of the first large US lithium projects to enter production South African-based miner, Sibanye Stillwater, with […]

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- September 21, 2021
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SMM saga sucks in SA President

FRIENDS of Shabanie and Mashava Mines Holdings (FoSMM) have filed papers at the Johannesburg High Court seeking an order to compel South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to ignore an administrator appointed under Zimbabwe’s Reconstruction of State and Insolvent Companies (Recon) Act to take charge of the Zvishavane-based asbestos miner. In case number 21/38369, FoSMM claimed […]

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- September 20, 2021
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Explosive dossier exposes Chiadzwa gems tax sleaze

A whistleblower has submitted an explosive dossier to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) providing insight into how diamond mining firms in the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, evaded tax obligations, prejudicing the state of jaw-dropping sums of money running into millions of United States dollars. The plunder of diamond proceeds has been acknowledged at the […]

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