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No to raw mineral exports says Mugabe singling out Zimplats
14 Dec 2013 at 07:31hrs | Views
Chinhoyi - President Robert Mugabe on Friday at the Zanu-PF annual conference reiterated his call to ban raw mineral exports as part of tougher measures for the mining sector.
"We should not continue to send our minerals out in their raw form," Mugabe told delegates at the meeting in the farming town of Chinhoyi, north-west of the capital.
He singled out Zimplats, a subsidiary of platinum-mining multinational Implats, for "externalising" raw ore.
"Zimplats has been exporting platinum but we have very little by way of earnings. We don't know where the money is going. We must have our money back."
He said the government was considering slashing by half the number of miners in the eastern diamond minefields.
"We should be looking at the possibility of rationalising the mining of diamonds," he said.
"We have six companies mining diamonds, but of these six only three are really worthy talking about. We would also want greater transparency."
"We should not continue to send our minerals out in their raw form," Mugabe told delegates at the meeting in the farming town of Chinhoyi, north-west of the capital.
He singled out Zimplats, a subsidiary of platinum-mining multinational Implats, for "externalising" raw ore.
He said the government was considering slashing by half the number of miners in the eastern diamond minefields.
"We should be looking at the possibility of rationalising the mining of diamonds," he said.
"We have six companies mining diamonds, but of these six only three are really worthy talking about. We would also want greater transparency."
Source - AFP
