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Illegal lithium exports undermine Zimbabwe's mineral wealth
In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, approached a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique carrying a sealed container he believed held chrome, a mineral listed on the shipment paperwork. Having t...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 09:00hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Giant lithium miner displaces villagers in Zimbabwe
A tense standoff is unfolding in Bikita, where eight families settled on George Nollen Farm under Chief Marozva in the year 2000, as part of Zimbabwe's land reform programme, are now facing eviction. ...Published: 11 May 2025 at 12:44hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Foreign mining companies should follow Zimbabwe laws
Foreign mining companies must ensure their operations in Zimbabwe benefit indigenous citizens, who are the rightful owners of the country's natural resources. This was the message from Remigious Matan...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:40hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Australia firm unfazed by Zimbabwe lithium setback
MetalsGrove, an Australia Stock Exchange (ASX)-listed company, has announced its intention to continue pursuing lithium assets in Zimbabwe despite initial exploration setbacks. The company's explorati...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lithium miners table refinery plans
Four lithium mining companies have tabled plans to produce battery-grade lithium in Zimbabwe, a government official said on Monday.Zimbabwe, Africa's top producer of lithium, which is used in ...Published: 21 May 2024 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Farmers, lithium miner clash
HORTICULTURE farmers in Goromonzi have accused the Platinum Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) mine of negatively affecting their socio-economic life, while others have welcomed the miner's activities in the area...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wants lithium miners to plan new capacity
Zimbabwe wants miners to come forward by the end of March with plans to produce battery-grade lithium, despite a sharp fall in global prices for the mineral, a senior government official said on Frida...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records jump in investment proposals
Zimbabwe saw a massive growth in the value of proposed investments in the fourth quarter of 2023 despite approving fewer new investor licenses, according to the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Age...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe PSL season kickoff delayed
THE Premier Soccer League (PSL) has pushed the Castle Challenge Cup to February 24, a clash that had been initially scheduled for a week earlier.PSL chief executive officer Kenny Ndebele told ...Published: 10 Feb 2024 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe looks for investment spark in EV market
AN "open for business" initiative launched by the Zimbabwean government in 2018 is being supported by the growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs).The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency was ...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe orders lithium miners to submit refinery plans by March 2024
Zimbabwe has given lithium miners up to March 2024 to submit plans for the local production of battery-grade lithium in a bid to benefit from growing demand for the clean energy mineral, Finance Minis...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 21:09hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Don't condemn Zimbabwe, we need minerals, says British MP
The United Kingdom's approach to Zimbabwe in the aftermath of its tumultuous elections is facing potential complications, as British lawmakers caution Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government to exerci...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 18:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lithium discovery excites UK miner
UNITED KINGDOM-BASED Galileo Resources says the lithium discovery at Kamativi has given it much "encouragement and provided the impetus" to increase drilling.The firm has interests in Zimbabwe's B...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Canadian lithium firm unearths evidence of large deposits in Zimbabwe
CANADA-based lithium exploration and development company, Li3 Lithium Corporation, has announced the discovery of lithium mineralisation on a 1,2 kilometre stretch at Nels Luck pegmatite target, durin...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 06:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bikita Minerals launches 2 giant plants
BIKITA Minerals, a lithium miner owned by Chinese firm Sinomine Resource Group, has completed and officially commenced trial productions on its two plants - gravity separation and flotation - at a cos...Published: 11 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urges unity among lithium miners
GOVERNMENT has called on lithium players to work together to establish value-addition plants for lithium concentrates.Currently there are around eight different lithium exploration and mining ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Precious minerals smuggled through Zimbabwe porous borders
ZIMBABWE is losing precious minerals through porous borders, with security forces and border officials manning the entry points seriously incapacitated to plug illicit flows, a report by the Parliamen...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe presses miners to produce battery-grade lithium locally
Employees charge lithium ion batteries for a Hamba electric motorcycle at a solar-powered recharging station in Wedza, Zimbabwe, 22 May 2020. Picture taken May 22, 2020. REUTERS/MacDonald Dzirutwe...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe losing control over lithium - Report
ZIMBABBWE's lithium is being smuggled at far worse rates than previously estimated, a new report said this week, blaming foreign cartels.In a report titled ‘implications of the lithium minin...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners wreak havoc in Matebeleland South
CHIEF Jahana of Matebeleland South province has expressed concern over illegal gold miners who are terrorising villagers in the province.In an interview with Southern Eye recently, the traditi...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lithium miner to start exports
PROSPECT Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) said on Thursday it was due to begin exports from Arcadia, its new Zimbabwean operation near Harare, following the completion of a US$275 million processing facility....Published: 21 Apr 2023 at 19:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zulu lithium production might start this week
MULTI-COMMODITY mining and natural resource development company, Premier African Minerals, on Tuesday completed the plant assembly, construction and final instrumentation connections at the mine plant...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expected to attend Zulu Lithium plant official opening
DIVERSIFIED mining group, Premier African Minerals Chief executive officer, Mr George Roach says Government is delighted with rapid progress at the Zulu Lithium plant in Fort Rixon coupled with height...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe becomes lithium giant
Zimbabwe continues to consolidate its position as a major lithium producer globally, with Bikita Minerals having ramped up petalite production to 60 000 tonnes annually after a Chinese firm, Sinomine,...Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Reflecting on the export ban for raw lithium
Through Statutory Instrument 213 of 2022 (Referend to as Base Minerals Export Control for unbeneficiated Lithium Bearing Ores), Zimbabwe banned the export of raw lithium from the country. The regulati...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:12hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
Chaos as Henrietta Rushwaya flees angry mob
There was chaos at Sandawana mine as thousands of artisanal miners bayed for the blood of Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya after they failed to agree on working conditions...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 08:47hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe holds Africa's largest lithium reserves
Zimbabwe holds Africa's largest lithium reserves, the fifth-largest globally, with its province of Masvingo home to the Bikita mine - site of the world's largest-known deposit of the metal at around 1...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 19:33hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Zesa needs US$300m to address backlog
ZESA Holdings has a backlog of 305 000 domestic customers who need to have electricity connected to their homes, but requires a whooping US$300 million to connect all of them, a senior official has sa...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 09:59hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Lithium: Chinese lead scramble for Zimbabwe assets
CHINESE firms have invested over US$570 million in Zimbabwe's lithium mines since the last quarter of 2021, as the rush for Zimbabwe's resource escalates.It is not only the Chinese who have st...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lithium miner ships first samples
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 ...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rare earth minerals find 'encouraging'
LITHIUM miner Prospect Resources says preliminary results undertaken from a soil sampling process focusing on rare earth elements (REEs) recently at Chishanya in the southeast of Zimbabwe, are encoura...Published: 14 May 2021 at 07:29hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Bikita Minerals upgrades plant
Zimbabwe's largest lithium miner, Bikita Minerals has upgraded its plant which will now be able to beneficiate its own lithium ore and that of other players in the country, Business Times can report....Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:42hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Premier Africa starts diamond drilling at Fort Rixon
AIM-listed Premier African Minerals says it has received encouraging results from its 2 500 m drilling programme at the Zulu lithium project in Fort Rixon, Zimbabwe.The first diamond core ...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe is going nowhere,' says Kasukuwere
Zanu-PF Politburo member Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday accused some senior ruling party officials of clandestinely plotting to topple President Mugabe and dared them to come out in the open to challen...Published: 20 Oct 2014 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by George Maponga
Zimbabwe's real wealth untapped
WE HAVE heard it all before. Zimbabwe has the second-largest platinum reserves in the world next to South Africa, the largest alluvial diamond reserves in the world, significant gold, chrome, coal and...Published: 04 Feb 2013 at 11:20hrs | | by Vince Musewe
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