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Chrome ore concentrates are not minerals, rules Zimbabwe High Court
High Court Justice Siyabona Paul Musithu has issued a landmark ruling that could significantly affect the financial landscape for chrome miners in Zimbabwe. The court has determined that chrome ore co...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 09:15hrs | 1527 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opens rail network to private companies
The National Railways of Zimbabwe has opened its network up to private players, including a unit of South Africa's Grindrod, as it seeks to boost freight volumes that had collapsed after decades of un...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 13:07hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe edges closer to methane gas extraction
ONE of the six investors awarded special grants by Government to prospect for coal-bed methane (CBM) gas in Matebeleland North has made significant progress and is inching closer to tapping the resour...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZIMASCO starts building two new furnaces
ZIMASCO, a unit of China's Sinosteel, has started building two new furnaces at the Kwekwe complex as it targets to raise capacity by 40 percent, a spokesperson said.The US$35 million investmen...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pilot gas production to start in 2024
SHANGANI Energy Exploration (SEE), the company exploring coal bed methane in the Matabeleland North Province said it will start a pilot gas production for power generation in 2024.SEE, a joint...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 4 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
China sees third force in huge outcry over its Zimbabwe activities
FOLLOWING months of a huge outcry over Chinese enterprises' "exploitative" strategy in Zimbabwe's mineral resources, Beijing's diplomats in Harare spoke out this week, telling the Zimbabwe Independent...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZimAlloys to resume production next year
Zimbabwe Alloys (ZimAlloys), one of the country's largest ferrochrome producer is looking to re-start production during the first quarter of next year, an official has saidThe company owns thr...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimasco completes feasibility study for Mberengwa furnaces
ZIMASCO, a local ferro-chrome producer owned by China's Sinosteel, has completed a feasibility study for the construction of furnaces in Neta, Mberengwa District, where it intends to build new mines, ...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe FDI doubles to $745 million in 2018 ($349 million in 2017)
Zimbabwe's Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows more than doubled to $745 million in 2018 from $349 million in 2017, on the back of a small number of approved projects, latest report shows. FDI out...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by FinX
Good news to confront the naysayers
As we begin a truly new era for Zimbabwe, I cannot fathom the vile negativity with which so many people still view the new dispensation.It appears as if people have very short memories. Not lo...Published: 15 May 2018 at 17:08hrs | 1 | by Mike Tawanda
Shurugwi Council takes over Zimasco schools
The country's largest ferrochrome processor, Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Zimasco) which is facing serious viability problems has surrendered several schools that ran under it to Shurugwi Tow...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
50 families face eviction
Nearly 50 families in Mutorashanga, Mashonaland West province, face eviction from Zimasco chrome compound after the Monday deadline they were given to vacate the houses to pave way for the demolit...Published: 21 Jul 2014 at 00:49hrs | | by Walter Nyamukondiwa
Zanu-PF blamed for destroying Zimasco
Mbizo MP Settlement Chikwinya (MDC-T) has accused Zanu-PF and Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere of being directly responsible for the demise of the chrome-smelting giant, Zimasco in Kwekwe. ...Published: 23 Jan 2013 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimasco to increase production by 2012
Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting (Zimasco), a Unit of Sinosteel Corp will increase its ferrochrome output by more than a quarter by 2012 following the repair and upgrade of one of its six furnaces, an off...Published: 26 Jul 2011 at 04:49hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe bans chrome exports to boost refining
Reuters reported that Zimbabwe has banned the export of chrome as it looks to build internal refinery capacity.According to the US Geological Survey, Zimbabwe, along with South Africa, holds...Published: 22 Apr 2011 at 18:51hrs | | by Ndou Paul
China, Zimbabwe's all weather friend increases economic grip
CHINA is consolidating its economic grip on Zimbabwe as part of its continent-wide strategy to dominate a vast swathe of the African economic landscape, stealing a march on South Afric...Published: 24 Mar 2011 at 05:06hrs | | by Muleya
Zimasco shuts down Peak Chrome Mine
Sinosteel owned Zimbabwe ferrochrome producer Zimasco will shut down its 48 000 tonnes per year Peak Chrome Mine, an underground operation, due to dwindling ore, a company spokesperson told...Published: 16 Feb 2011 at 10:48hrs | | by Byo24News
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