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REGIONAL mining group, Premier African Minerals has started drilling at its Zulu Lithium project in Matabeleland South province. Last month, the multi-commodity mining and natural resource development company, announced a placement of £1 million for the ongoing Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) at Zulu. In a statement yesterday, Premier said drilling was underway at Zulu with […]

CONSTRUCTION of Afrochine Dinson Colliery’s coking coal and coke oven battery projects in Hwange under the first phase is now complete with the US$30 million investment creating 300 jobs.   In April, the company announced that it had started heating up its furnace in preparation for the start of metallurgical coke production.  The firm, a subsidiary of […]

The country’s sole buyer of gold, Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) says authorities should introduce a tax moratorium on small scale miners to ramp up production as Zimbabwe eyes 100 tonnes of the yellow metal per annum by 2023. The country’s gold production has gone down to 2015 levels due to unfriendly mining policies which […]

Zimbabwe is planning to revive copper mining in the country and the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) has since requested for expression of interest from potential investors. Zimbabwe’s last operational copper mine, Mhangura, was closed in 2000, owing to low international copper prices at the time. But amid a significant rise in copper prices in […]

BINDURA Nickel Mine has increased capital expenditure by 73 percent to US$8,9 million in the financial year ended March 31, 2021 from US$5,1 million in the prior year. The nickel miner’s capital expenditure projects that were implemented during the year under review are the Sub-Vertical Rock (SVR) winder mechanical and electrical upgrades (US$1,7 million), shaft […]

THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has claimed that the administration of public resources in the country was shrouded in politics, which it claimed was detrimental to national development and growth. It said following a study on natural resource governance in the country, it concluded that citizens in areas endowed with natural resources […]

Mining group — Dallaglio Investments has brought in equipment from Netherlands for its Eureka Mine as it moves to beat global shipping delays. World over, businesses have been affected by supply chain disruptions following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic that has seen many countries closing borders or operating at limited capacity among other challenges. […]

Chinese mining firm, Afrochine Smelting, is appealing for State protection amid  mounting resistance by some safari operators and residents objecting the granting of a special grant to the company in Hwange District in Matabeleland North province.  Matabeleland North is one of the provinces in Zimbabwe endowed with vast natural resources including minerals such as coal bed […]