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By Business Reporter –Sunday 28 February 2021 HARARE (Mining Index) – REMUNERATION and housing conflicts, loss of employment, evictions, no provision of water, cultural rights violation, lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), increase in child labour, rising cases of commercial sex workers and involvement of state apparatus have been the order of the day at […]

Australian Stock Exchange listed miner, Zimplats, did not act on recommendations from experts that could have averted a high wall collapse which killed one worker, an internal report has shown. The platinum producer, which operates in the Ngezi area, recorded a fatal accident on February 14 when cherry picker operator Kudzanai Manyonganise was trapped by […]

Zimbabwe is losing millions of dollars through side marketing and smuggling of gold, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya has said, as deliveries by small scale miners decline. Analysts, however, said government policies were promoting illicit financial flows and smuggling of gold outside the country.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-6565926412087023&output=html&h=280&slotname=9274382927&adk=1184440693&adf=2610811236&pi=t.ma~as.9274382927&w=708&fwrn=4&fwrnh=100&lmt=1614430349&rafmt=1&psa=1&format=708×280&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbusinesstimes.co.zw%2Fillicit-gold-trade-hits-zim%2F&flash=0&fwr=0&fwrattr=true&rpe=1&resp_fmts=3&wgl=1&adsid=ChEIgPjngQYQuJGo_8rjlvO9ARI9AB9XdL_VmHgt8ARhWhY79QY0OdS1IZ8ugU9bxfi-tobr_z-bmvMx51ipMJGq1i96krQDcxAjWN0Z_qj0yw&uach=WyJXaW5kb3dzIiwiMTAuMCIsIng4NiIsIiIsIjg4LjAuNDMyNC4xODIiLFtdXQ..&tt_state=W3siaXNzdWVyT3JpZ2luIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hZHNlcnZpY2UuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbSIsInN0YXRlIjozfSx7Imlzc3Vlck9yaWdpbiI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXR0ZXN0YXRpb24uYW5kcm9pZC5jb20iLCJzdGF0ZSI6N31d&dt=1614430349035&bpp=5&bdt=1042&idt=5&shv=r20210224&cbv=r20190131&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3D5c0070941c74629c-22e9208bbba600b4%3AT%3D1612653220%3ART%3D1612653220%3AS%3DALNI_MaGea2Zn2jkenkUoX2Rzq_mW9Gxeg&prev_fmts=0x0%2C708x280&nras=1&correlator=5058484396370&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=581457954.1614430348&ga_sid=1614430348&ga_hid=1023148348&ga_fc=0&u_tz=120&u_his=5&u_java=0&u_h=768&u_w=1366&u_ah=728&u_aw=1366&u_cd=24&u_nplug=3&u_nmime=4&adx=121&ady=1591&biw=1349&bih=625&scr_x=0&scr_y=0&eid=42530672%2C21067496&oid=3&pvsid=9129049215355&pem=803&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fbusinesstimes.co.zw%2Fcategory%2Fmining%2F&rx=0&eae=0&fc=1920&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1366%2C0%2C1366%2C728%2C1366%2C625&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7CoeEbr%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=8320&bc=31&jar=2021-02-27-12&ifi=3&uci=a!3&btvi=2&fsb=1&xpc=yyeyMwZTbI&p=https%3A//businesstimes.co.zw&dtd=16 Last year, gold output plummeted 31% to 19.052 tonnes […]

THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (Zdamwu) yesterday claimed that negotiations for first quarter wage increments had stalled after the National Employment Council (NEC) for the mining industry and the Chamber of Mines  Zimbabwe (CoMZ) reportedly  turned down requests for meetings. Zdamwu general-secretary Justice Chinhema said the CoMZ had argued that inflationary pressures […]

GOVERNMENT on Tuesday reverted to Zimbabwe dollar-denominated mining fees, only a week after Mines minister Winston Chitando made wide-ranging reviews based in United States dollars. Chitando’s move generally hiked mining fees by about 800%. But he courted a backlash from the Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF), which consists of 1,5 million artisanal miners that have emerged […]

CAFCA, Zimbabwe’s sole cable manufacturer, says projects in mining, retail and utilities lifted its local sales volumes by 47% in the three months to December last year. Export volumes increased by 25% compared to the same quarter in the previous year. Cafca exports to Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. […]

Government says the legal clarity needed to clear the misconception created as a result of an amendment to the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act (Chapter 14:33) (IEE Act), will be effected when treasury issues the midterm budget review statement later in the year. The misconception, which led some quarters into concluding that Government was reneging […]

FIDELITY Printers and Refineries has been granted an interim order by the High Court, blocking hooligans that had invaded a gold mine it owned in the Midlands and reversing the forfeiture and reallocation of the mining claims as due process had not been followed. Fidelity, a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, made an […]

The Zimbabwe Environmental Lawyers Association (Zela) has implored government to make a downward review of the recently hiked mining fees as most small-scale miners cannot afford them. In a statement, Zela said some small-scale miners were finding it difficult to afford the previous fees and the new fees would just increase their woes.Zela said the […]