
Aluminium hits highest since 2008 as power shortages escalate
Aluminium prices rose on Monday to their highest since 2008 due to increases in costs of energy and raw materials used to make the metal and output cuts by the biggest producer,.

Aluminium prices rose on Monday to their highest since 2008 due to increases in costs of energy and raw materials used to make the metal and output cuts by the biggest producer,.

Serbia won’t phase out coal-fired power plants anytime soon as it needs them to deal with the current energy crunch, president Aleksandar Vucic said, defying European pressure to speed up its energy.

TWO dozen countries have joined a US- and EU-led effort to slash methane emissions 30% by 2030, giving the emerging global partnership momentum ahead of its launch at the UN climate summit.

THE staged optimised feasibility study (OFS) of the Acradia lithium project, in Zimbabwe, has confirmed the economic viability of the project, said ASX-listed Prospect Resources.
The OFS considered the construction of two 1.2-million-tonne-a-year.

DIVERSIFIED mining group RioZim diamonds production went down by 4% due to technicalities associated with migration of mining activities in the half-year ended June 30, 2021.
Presenting the group’s half-year results, RioZim chairperson.

THE Zimbabwe Miners Federation says it is taking steps to ensure that the small-scale and artisanal mining sector’s positive contribution to the country’s economy is not overshadowed by avoidable accidents in mineshafts.
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AUSTRALIA-LISTED mining concern Prospect Resources Limited has shipped its first 25-tonne container of technical grade petalite concentrate from its Arcadia pilot plant, near Harare, the firm said at the weekend.
The shipment will.

Seven people have died after gas cylinders exploded at a mine in Mazowe, the Zimbabwe Republic Police have said.
“The Zimbabwe Republic Police is investigating the circumstance in which six foreign national as.

Thursday 7 October 2021
FROM THE MINISTER’S DESK – (Mining Index) – THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development is almost complete towards migrating from the manual to an automated computerized Mining Cadastre.

By Brian Makani
MASVINGO (Mining Index) – IN the previous edition of the article published on mining and the environment, a discussion of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was made briefly.
This month’s edition.