
Marange diamonds: Wealth for a few, despair for many
TREVOR Kusena (19) struggles to walk from his cottage to the veranda at his family home in Betera, a village in Marange in Manicaland province.
As soon as he sits down, a dog.

TREVOR Kusena (19) struggles to walk from his cottage to the veranda at his family home in Betera, a village in Marange in Manicaland province.
As soon as he sits down, a dog.

SOLGAS Energy, the firm that commissioned a five-megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Hwange last week, said it was targeting to produce 30MW in the next two years.
In a statement, the firm.

CALEDONIA Mining Corporation says it plans to channel proceeds from its Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) listing towards the purchase of Maligreen, a gold asset located in the Midlands province.
The Maligreen, which.

Zimbabwe’s biggest diamond miner says it will resume its monthly auction April, ending an eight-month hiatus caused by COVID-19, after a record year of production in 2021.
The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC).

Kibo Energy plc, a UK renewable energy company listed in London and Johannesburg, has acquired the 100MW Victoria Falls Solar Park project for US$13 million.
The first 25MW of the project is fully.

Global cumulative lithium-ion battery capacity could rise over five-fold to 5,500 gigawatt-hour (GWh) between 2021 and 2030, says Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK).

Volkswagen will form joint ventures with Huayou Cobalt and Tsingshan Group to secure nickel and cobalt supplies for electric vehicles in China, the world’s No. 1 car market, and to slash costs.

Copper production in Zambia dropped to 800 696 t last year from 837 996 t the year before, data obtained from the nation’s statistics agency showed on Tuesday.
Zambia’s cobalt production also dropped.

Zimbabwe’s biggest rough diamonds miner sees Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggering “far-reaching consequences” for the global gem industry and possibly lifting demand for its own diamonds.
Russia’s Alrosa is the world’s biggest diamond.

Alrosa plans to close its New York operations as tensions between the US and Russia escalate.
Rebecca Foerster, president of Alrosa USA, has left the company, the miner said Monday.
The developments follow White.