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US$1m for strategic minerals licence in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has gazetted a sweeping new Mines and Minerals Bill that seeks to clamp down on speculative mining claim hoarding while ensuring only credible investors participate in the extraction of strat...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:12hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean communities raise alarm over lithium mining impacts
As global demand for lithium surges to power electric vehicles and household solar batteries, the scramble for Zimbabwe's rich lithium deposits is exposing deep-rooted tensions between economic intere...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:09hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mining offenders to lose titles under new enforcement drive
Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando has issued a stern warning to Zimbabwe's mining industry, declaring that operators who flout environmental and legal regulations will lose their ...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:05hrs | 270 | by Staff reporter
Calls mount for amendment of Zimbabwe's outdated Mines and Minerals Act
The long-overdue amendment of Zimbabwe's Mines and Minerals Act (Chapter 21:05) has become a pressing issue as the country grapples with mineral leakages and a lack of transparency in its mining secto...Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:15hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to garnish Chinese firm with US$2m sting over taxes
Chinese-owned mining company, AfroChine Smelting, has been unsuccessful in its attempt to stop the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) from garnishing its bank account to recover US$2 million in unpaid...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 11:08hrs | 4663 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt bans alluvial mining
The Zimbabwean government has introduced stringent regulations banning alluvial mining activities along rivers and public streams, citing significant environmental damage caused by the practice. The m...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 07:20hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna, two others acquitted of illegally prospecting for gold
Former Zanu-PF Chegutu Member of Parliament, Dexter Nduna, along with two co-accused individuals, has been acquitted of charges related to illegal prospecting for minerals without a license. The verdi...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 11:06hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Court judgement could see 70% of mines shut down in Zimbabwe
HARARE - A large majority of Zimbabwe's mines risk losing their mining permits after the High Court ruled that miners should first obtain an environmental impact assessment certificate (EIAC) before b...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 21:09hrs | 76 | by ZimLive
Afrochine loses US$3m tax battle with Zimra
AFROCHINE Smelting Private Limited has been ordered to pay nearly US$3 million in royalties for under-declaring its earnings. Afrochine Smelting is a company that produces and exports ferrochrome, an ...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Minister sued for gold mine ‘fraud'
A HARARE resources firm has slapped former Mines minister, Winston Chitando with a slew of criminal charges for allegedly corruptly awarding lucrative gold claims in Bindura to a rival miner.T...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF legislators lavish Mnangagwa with praises
Zanu-PF legislators have been turning turns to sing the praises of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Parliament, while MPs from the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) have been absent from ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bad leadership behind Zimbabwe's impoverishment
FORMER Finance minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU) Tendai Biti has blamed poor political leadership and a shambolic mineral resource governance strategy for the stagnation in Zimbabwe's...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillor eyes council mine dump
BULAWAYO councillor Monica Lubimbi, her partner Sikhanyisiwe Nyathi and Belmac Investments (Pvt) Ltd are seeking permission from the local authority to collect mine dump sands from Paddock 40 Farm at ...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims Zanu-PF fulfilled 2018 election promises
AS Zimbabweans continue to suffocate under the hyperinflation environment and many other challenges, President Emmerson Mnangagwa says much has been achieved by the Second Republic in last five years....Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's US$12 billion mining economy on course
ZIMBABWE'S mining industry has registered significant strides towards realising the ambitious US$12 billion milestone by the end of this year, Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando ha...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approves nationwide audits on mining activities
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved the undertaking of nationwide audits on all mining activities in a bid to enhance widespread compliance issues expected of players in the sector.The a...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe open for business, not abuse'
IN as much as Zimbabwe is open for business, the country is not open to abuse and will not condone mineral leakages, haphazard operations, and breaches of it's laws, President Mnangagwa has said....Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zacc quashes 'catch and release' allegations
THE ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has quashed speculation that it is engaged in "catch and release" practice in corruption cases.Speaking to Chronicle last week in Bulawayo, Zacc ...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new mines law a welcome game changer, but.....
AFTER years of debates and uncertainty, government finally gazetted the Mines and Minerals Bill in February 2023 to ostensibly replace the current Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05]. The current A...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by James Tsabora
Miners4ED invade gold mine
A GROUP of illegal miners operating under the Zanu-PF-linked Miners 4ED, which includes police officers and ruling party officials, have invaded Ascot Gold Mine in Norton despite the fact that it was ...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa asked to intervene in mine row
THE Ministry of Industry and Commerce has requested President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in a mining wrangle between Chemplex Corporation and a former executive with the Industrial Development Co...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:09hrs | 8 | 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
RBZ takes charge of in-kind mining royalties
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will assume responsibility for collecting, holding, and managing reserve assets from the 50 percent in-kind mining royalties in line with the latest regulations whil...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe miners hail raw base minerals export ban
MANY in mining, including representatives of small-scale miners, have backed the Government ban on export of all ores and under-processed minerals, except where special exemptions are obtained in limi...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 06:57hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of taking Zimbabwe back to medieval era
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Statutory Instrument (SI) 189 of 2022, announced on November 4 to legalise payment of miners' royalties partly in kind has been described as not just being illegal but a...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parly summons Chitando over mining leases
MINES and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando has been summoned to Parliament to answer questions on special mining leases issued since 2018.Raising a matter of national interest in P...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top mines official arrested for abuse of office
MASHONALAND West acting provincial mining director Sibongile Mpindiwa has been arrested for allegedly unlawfully forfeiting mining claims, changing ownership and then handing them over to other people...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP struggles to read English text; cheered when he switches to Shona
Zanu-PF's Mutoko North legislator Rambidzai Nyabote struggled to read a statement written in English statement during a Question and Answer session in parliament on Wednesday. After Speaker Ja...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 jailed for trying to smuggle lithium ore to SA
TWO Mutoko men appeared at the Mutoko Magistrates Court on Wednesday charged with attempting to smuggle 40 tonnes of lithium ore out of the country using a South African registered truck.Livin...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers, miner clash over land
MZINYATHINI villagers in Umzingwane, Matabeleland South are up in arms against a miner they accuse of pegging his mining claims on their farmland.Ward 3 village co-ordinator David Mpofu confir...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Gold coins safer than Zimdollar'
THE resilience of gold as a store of value pushed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to introduce gold coins last month, a central bank official said yesterday.Azvinandava Saburi, director of ...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Assessing the US$12 billion mining industry target
The Zimbabwean government launched an ambitious plan to transform the mining sector into a US$12 billion export industry by end of 2023. The plan was launched in October 2019 as a key pillar to sustai...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 12:01hrs | 6 | by Victor Bhoroma
Kazembe tightening borders to curb smuggling
GOVERNMENT says it will tighten the country's borders to curb smuggling of minerals out of the country at a time when reports state that Zimbabwe is losing US$100 million worth of gold every month to ...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bankers endorse central bank currency auction
BANKERS have endorsed government's foreign currency auction system, describing it as transparent given the prevailing economic situation.Giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mines official sucked in gold mine wrangle
A SENIOR Mashonaland East Mines and Mining Development ministry official has been sucked into a gold claim ownership wrangle after he allegedly accepted an application of conversion of a disputed clai...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold output jumps 86,3%
ZIMBABWE'S total gold output for the first five months of the year spiked by 86,3 percent to 13,171,58kg compared to 7,068,85kg in the corresponding period in 2021, official data show.Accordin...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 08:57hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
All Zimbabweans must benefit from mineral Resources: Zimcodd
THE Zimbabwe Coalition of Debt and Development has reported that in the week under review, Zimbabwe registered a big milestone in the mining of Platinum Group Minerals (PGMs) with the addition o...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 11:08hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
'Mineral leakages bleeding Zimbabwe economy'
SOCIO-ECONOMIC watchdog, Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has called on government to curb mineral leakages and export of raw minerals to help revive the economy.In its rec...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politicians frustrate crucial mining reforms
A LEADING resources campaigner has claimed that Zimbabwe's elite are reluctant to push through amendments to the Mines Act, a 60-year-old legislation that has outlived its usefulness.The Zimba...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane Dam chokes
TWO unregistered dams built in the Umzingwane Dam catchment area and gold panning activities along Umzingwane River have contributed to the Bulawayo supply dam not impounding adequate water since the ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns Uzumba 'rebels'
Zanu-PF officials in Uzumba constituency have disowned party supporters who recently demonstrated against Chinese miner, Heijin's granite mining operations in the district.The supporters threa...Published: 15 Dec 2021 at 06:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to implement the 'use it or lose it' policy
ARTISANAL miners have urged the government to speedily implement the "use it or lose it" mining policy to prevent accumulation of claims for speculative purposes.Artisanal and Small Scale Mine...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's rural communities resist opaque Chinese projects
ZIMBABWE is witnessing growing conflicts between Chinese mining companies and indigenous communities who are being evicted from their ancestral lands without compensation to pave way for mining operat...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner loses granite licence
A Chinese firm, Heijin Mining Company, is set to lose its certificates of operations in Kaseke and Chibvi 2, in Murehwa following complaints by the community, Chief Nyajina and Councillor Marowa....Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt suspends Chinese miner's operations in Uzumba
THE Mines Ministry has, with immediate effect, cancelled all the mining activities of the Chinese-owned Heijin Mining Company in Uzumba, Mashonaland East Province.The mine was prospecting for ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity wins repossession of forfeited Gold claim
Fidelity Printers and Refineries has finally repossessed its claim that was forfeited by the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development last year, after the Supreme Court confirmed an interim order gran...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nehanda shrine under siege from illegal gold miners
SITUATED 30km north of Harare is an area of rocky hillsides overlooking the Mazowe River.The area boasts several botanical interests.However, Gomba, as the area is also known, is...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
600 Matebeleland South miners forfeit gold claims
CLOSE to 600 gold claims owned by small-scale miners in Matebeleland South province have been forfeited to the Mines ministry after the owners failed to pay inspection fees.Zimbabwe Miners Fed...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes gold mine row
BLACKGATE investments, a firm that last week lost the disputed Ran Gold Mines near Bindura, has mounted fresh attempts to reclaim the asset, submitting explosive dossiers to anti-corruption agencies a...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
EMA speaks out on Chinese miners operation in Uzumba
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) says it is yet to receive an environmental impact assessment report from Heijin Mining Company, a Chinese mining company, which is on the verge of displacing ...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 15:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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