$20 million allocated to miners being exhausted

The $20 million funding allocated by the government to the miners is getting exhausted amid concerns some miners were struggling to get capital to run their entities.

Speaking to the senators in Parliament Deputy Minister of Mines Freddy Moyo said the funding for the small scale miners was running out.

This was after Senator Morgan Komichi during senate in parliament.

"There are those artisanal miners; you talked a lot about the assistance that you are going to give them so that their mining ventures become easy.  What have you done to date to ensure that their mining activities become easier in the form of mechanisation?" Komichi asked.

Moyo said small scale miners and artisanal miners are assisted by the machinery that they use.

"There is a $20m funding given by the Government, it is almost being exhausted.  We are training throughout the country using the School of Mines.  The Ministry is also conducting training programme and we are registering them into groups so that they have their own membership under the Zimbabwe Mining Federation," he said.