Researchers are evaluating several paths to create super diamonds, scientifically known as eight-atom body-centred cubic (BC8) crystals.
A recent paper in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters explains that BC8 is a distinct.
The European benchmark ferrochrome price for the second quarter of this year has been settled at $1.52/lb, 5.6% up on the first three months of 2024.
Zimbabwe holds the second-largest known chrome ore reserves after South Africa,.
SABI Star Mine, a US$130 million lithium operation commissioned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2022, slipped into a racism storm two weeks ago, with workers approaching the Department of Immigration and the.
ZIMBABWE’S major platinum producers are reeling under severe headwinds underpinned by plummeting prices, which have induced firms to embark on widespread retrenchments.
Forecasts by the World Platinum Investment Council (WIPC) show that output.
The government should step in to support financially strapped miners and help cut costs by reviewing tax laws and electricity tariffs in order to prevent business closures that might lead to shortages.
Zambia and Zimbabwe are retendering a US$5 billion project to build a hydropower plant they previously awarded to General Electric and Power Construction of China, and expect to select new bidders by.
A new special capital gains tax has been introduced where the purchaser of a mining title now has to pay a tax of 20 percent of the value of the transaction.
The new.
IMMINENT production at the Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco) plant in Manhize will spur Zimbabwe’s industrialisation and mark a significant milestone in the country’s ambitious development agenda, whose target is to.
CHROME is an essential industrial commodity. Over 90% of the world’s chrome output is used to make ferrochrome, which is a mixture of chrome and iron ore, manufactured through a high-temperature smelting.
ZIMBABWE’S mineral wealth is a fluck of nature. Its earth is packed with such metal ores as gold, lithium, diamond, granite and coal along the vast seams in this part of the.
