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Mercury use in gold mining – women experiences and effects

By Lucy Tandi – Monday 14 June 2021 LOCAL – HARARE (Mining Index) – SMALL-SCALE women miners in Zimbabwe have in recent years been exposed to Mercury (Hg) during gold production, posing serious health challenges to their well-being and the environment. The gold mining sector in Zimbabwe remains detrimental to women and the environment in […]

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Mineral beneficiation is the next frontier

African countries, Zimbabwe included, continue to be haunted by the “resource curse” over failure to use their mineral wealth to transform their economies. They are among resource-rich countries that have seemingly failed to leverage on mining through beneficiation and value addition. Value adding mineral resources involves processing them into semi-processed and processed form. Despite having […]

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Effects of Covid-19 on women gold miners in Zimbabwe

By Lucy Tandi – Monday 14 June 2021 LOCAL – HARARE (Mining Index) – WOMEN bullion miners across Zimbabwe’s mining sector have not been spared from the effects of Covid-19. With government imposing lockdown measures, curfews and shutting down major economic sectors to curb spread of the virus, the mining sector was also prejudiced, recording […]

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Women step up in mining

THE Zimbabwe Mining Federation has stepped a gear up in re-organising its structures as they prepare to mechanise more artisanal and small-scale miners across the country. Speaking on the sidelines of the federation’s Manicaland provincial elections held at Mutare Museums last week, ZMF president Ms Henrietta Rushwaya said there is need to re-organise provincial structures […]

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Zim to resume copper production next year: Chitando

Zimbabwe is set to resume copper production next year more than 20 years after Mhangura Mine closed on falling international copper prices, Mines and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando has said. The government through its investment arm, Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC), which controls Mhangura Copper Mines, Sanyati and Lomagundi Smelting and Mining, has been […]

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Chiadzwa villagers turn to fishery

VILLAGERS in the diamond-rich Chiadzwa area have embarked on fishery and irrigation projects to sustain their families after realising that diamonds revenue was eluding them. Over 250 families are participating in the projects in Mukwada village. The villagers are keeping tilapia fish and growing beans among other crops on a five-hectare piece of land under […]

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‘Lasting solutions needed to curb gold leakages’

THERE is a need to come up with urgent lasting solutions towards addressing the problem of gold leakages, which continues to prejudice the economy of millions of dollars. The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mineral Development has expressed this concern, as it called upon the Government and relevant stakeholders to harmonise strategies to curb […]

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Alaska Mine resumes operations in October

AT least 200 people are expected to be fully employed through the Alaska Copper and Smelting Mine which resumes operations this October. The mine closed down operations in 2000 which affected more than 700 workers and their families. The mine is set to be opened under the name Grand Sanyuan Copper Resources by a Chinese […]

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VFEX to help attract FDI

Government says the establishment of the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX), which the Treasury has sugar-coated with a coterie of attractive incentives, will help draw increased foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country.  Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said apart from the range of peculiar incentives for investors listed on the VFEX, […]

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- June 10, 2021
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Govt calls for vigilance as oil firm makes headway

THE discovery of oil could pose a security threat to the country, which requires State security agencies to be always on high alert, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Mnangagwa made the call during the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe annual general meeting in Victoria Falls on Friday, as Australia Stock Exchange-listed oil and gas exploration […]

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