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Zimasco worker dies in chrome ore accident
A tragic accident occurred this morning at Zimasco's Kwekwe Division, one of Zimbabwe's leading ferro-chrome mining operations, when a CAT tipper operator was buried underneath a large pile of chrome ...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 14:58hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Chrome mining boon for Shurugwi families
In a major step toward community empowerment and inclusive resource management, Shurugwi North legislator Joseph Mpasi has launched an ambitious mining initiative aimed at directly benefiting local fa...Published: 07 Jun 2025 at 10:31hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miners wreak havoc in Mberengwa, Filabusi
Relations between local communities - including low-level employees, villagers, and chiefs - and Chinese nationals working in mining operations have sharply deteriorated in the Dolo and Filabusi areas...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:21hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Govt moves to rein in illegal chrome miners
The Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has raised serious concerns over the escalating illegal chrome mining activities along the Great Dyke, warning of extensive environmental damage, water pollution, ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 19:42hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Zimasco hostile takeover saga takes new twist
The ownership dispute involving Zimbabwe's largest chrome mining and smelting company, Zimasco, has taken a decisive turn after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal against a High Court interdict tha...Published: 13 May 2025 at 15:57hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Young miners secure 300ha of land for chrome washing
The Young Miners Foundation (YMF) has secured 300 hectares of chrome-rich land in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central province, as part of a structured, youth-led chrome processing initiative aimed at transfo...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:34hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zimasco placed under corporate rescue
Zimasco, one of Zimbabwe's largest ferrochrome producers, has been placed under corporate rescue following court filings by controversial businessman Shepherd Tundiya, who claims the company owes cred...Published: 17 Mar 2025 at 11:00hrs | 864 | by Staff reporter
How a Zimbabwean business coach went from artisinal miner to CEO
"I am always busy from Monday to Friday working for the Youth Miners Foundation, and on other days I will be at my own gold mine…" Payne Farai Kupfuwa, the 36-year-old CEO of the Young Miners Founda...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 08:57hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to take centre stage as 'world's next lithium valley'
As the shift towards sustainable energy gains momentum across the globe, the demand for lithium is anticipated to continue its upward trajectory, leading to an increase in its price despite growing su...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 18:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - Dubbed 'the World's Next Lithium Valley' - to Speak at Critical Minerals Africa 2023
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - As Zimbabwe sets its sights on achieving a $12-billion mining industry by year-end, Pfungwa Kunaka, Permanent Secretary for Mines and Mining Development of Zimbabwe, will spe...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 12:54hrs | 1 | by APO
Zimbabwe - Dubbed 'the World's Next Lithium Valley' - to Speak at Critical Minerals Africa 2023
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - As Zimbabwe sets its sights on achieving a $12-billion mining industry by year-end, Pfungwa Kunaka, Permanent Secretary for Mines and Mining Development of Zimbabwe, will spe...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 12:53hrs | | by APO
Outrage over bigwigs' 'secret' millions saga
Zimbabweans have been urged to demand accountability from their leaders after a report by an international organisation alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga re...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, Mnangagwa entangled in massive chrome scandal
COMPANIES linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga received US$3 million from South African chrome miner Zunaid Moti following a US$120 million deal signed betwee...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe truck driver arrested in South Africa
A 37-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean truck driver has been arrested in South Africa for illegally transporting chrome worth R650 000 in Limpopo Province.The truck driver, Brighton Mutandani, was arrested ...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths grab Kadoma gold mine
Zanu-PF youths have moved to grab Eiffel Blue gold mine in Kadoma from a European investor who has put it up for sale ahead of next year's general elections.This shows there is still no rule o...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:33hrs | 5 | 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 | 4 | 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
Illegal miners threaten railway tracks
SMALL-scale chrome miners have invaded Mapanzure area in Zvishavane, Midlands Province, where they are conducting illegal mining activities along the Gweru-Zvishavane railway line, amid growing fears ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's US$3bn platinum deal all but collapses in a shambles
IT was noisily touted as a game changer for Zimbabwe's mining sector, and the economy; a centrepiece of government's ambitious yet unrealistic US$12 billion target for the industry by next year and ca...Published: 31 May 2022 at 07:38hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Miserable X-mas for impoverished workers
THE year 2021 was a sad one for workers because of a plethora of challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic and now they will round it off with a bleak Christmas.Workers' unions say the gover...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 15:30hrs | 12 | by Staffreporter
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 | 2 | 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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chrome ore export banned
Exports of chrome ore have been banned with immediate effect and exports of chrome concentrates from July next year, as there are now enough smelters in the country to ensure that all exports are of f...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's corrupt election funding exposed
THE ruling Zanu-PF mortgaged the country's natural resources in lieu of US$100 million in financial support ahead of the country's 2013 general elections, a new report by a local watchdog has shown....Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sets US$140 million budget for Mnangagwa re-election in 2023
Zanu-PF has set a target of raising US$140 million for the 2023 election campaign, just days after a new report accused the party of "mortgaging" the country's minerals to finance its past campaigns....Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese in massive looting of Zimbabwe's minerals, says Chief Chiweshe
A TRADITIONAL leader in Mashonaland Central province has in a rare show of bravery stood up and accused Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe of being behind massive looting of the country mineral resources....Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 07:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mystery over Zimbabwe army deal?
MYSTERY over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and shadowy businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's murky purchase of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) partly-owned Pen East Mining's stake in platinum m...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:43hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm blocked from reserve
THE Harare High Court has ordered a Chinese company to stop chrome mining activities in the Mavuradonha Wilderness in Guruve.The mining activities were affecting the operations of tourism comp...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:57hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's minerals revenue hits US$2 billion
MINerAL revenues reached US$1,95 billion at the end of October this year, beating a projected US$1,52 billion target set by the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ), official statistics s...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court reverses army takeover of RioZim chrome mine
Listed mining company RioZim has won a Supreme Court battle with Zimbabwe's military after one of its mines was forcibly taken over through a ministerial decree.Defence minister Oppah Muchingu...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
SAA awaits approval to repatriate blocked funds from Zimbabwe
The airline's rescue practitioners, Les Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana, have already accepted the mining company's offer to pay South African Airways (SAA) in exchange for access to its funds in Zimbabwe...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Key pieces to Zimbabwe's $12 billion mining industry
In October 2019, the Zimbabwean government tabled an ambitious policy document that aims to turn the mining sector in the country into a US$12 billion industry by 2023. Achieving that export target wi...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:54hrs | 3 | by Victor Bhoroma
Key pieces to Zimbabwe's $12 billion mining industry
In October 2019, the Zimbabwean government tabled an ambitious policy document that aims to turn the mining sector in the country into a US$12 billion industry by 2023. Achieving that export target wi...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 12:27hrs | 19 | by Fanuel Chinowaita
Tensions flare over Chinese miners in the Midlands
Mounds of black chrome shimmer along the highway that runs through this area, as mine workers labour near heavy machinery marked with Chinese writing.The workers toil about 5km from the road, ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ liberalises fuel imports
Foreign currency-starved Zimbabwe has liberalised fuel imports by allowing authorised dealers to pay directly to foreign fuel suppliers upon exchange control approval in a move meant to ease pre...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 14:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
RBZ brings back the US Dollar
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has partially re-introduced the recently outlawed used of foreign currency for some sectors of the economy. In an Exchange Control circular No 8. of 2019 RBZ said ...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 11:26hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chrome smelters sued over US$7 million ore
Chrome mining and smelting company, Afrochine Smelting, has been taken to the High Court by NR Barber (Private) Ltd, for allegedly unlawfully removing its chrome ore worth US$7 million.Afrochi...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military stake stymies $4bn platinum project
A plan to build Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine at a cost of about $4 billion is floundering because a military stake in the project has deterred potential backers, according to people familiar with ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 15:05hrs | 2 | by Bloomberg
WATCH: Mnangagwa approves 11 projects worth $5.3 billion
The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet circulated for the information of Cabinet a list of eleven projects which have been approved by His Excellency the President for immediate impleme...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 16:21hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Fuel mogul splits Mnangagwa's govt
Businessman Kuda Tagwirei, has triggered off fresh fissures within Zanu-PF and government, with the Sakunda Holdings founder wittingly or unwittingly driving a wedge between President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 07:37hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Inside the fierce war for control of Zimbabwe's fuel industry
A fierce war is brewing behind the scenes for control of Zimbabwe's fuel industry pitting President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's allies following a bid by a South Afric...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga in tussle for RBZ
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Monday suspended four directors, just hours after the Finance Ministry's new communication tzar William Gerald Mutimunje, also known as Acie Lumumba, went on Face...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 20:56hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Govt gets tough on reckless chrome miners
THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has put chrome miners under close watch following concerns over mushrooming of highway operations that threaten roads and pose risks to humans and animals....Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt bans highway mining
GOVERNMENT has ordered chrome miners to stop operations along the Shurugwi-Zvishavane highway with immediate effect saying the activity was threatening the million dollar highway and lives due to unpl...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Moti Group, ZMM deal to boost chrome output
Chrome output by small-scale producers is projected to hit one million tonnes, a triple jump from 200 000 tonnes at present, under a funding deal with South Africa's Moti Group, which operates African...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs state-of-the-art equipment, says Chitando
State-of-the-art extraction equipment is what the Zimbabwean mining industry, particularly chrome mining, requires for the extraction of the large mineral deposits that the country has, to boost cost ...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches hightech ferrochrome plant
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday launched one of the country's most advanced technological chrome processing plants as the new administration continues to launch multi-million dollar projects to...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs a miracle, says Chamisa
MDC-T leader and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday declared that next month's general elections can only be adjudged as free and fair if he wins the presidential race agains...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Demo erupts days after Mnangagwa visit
Five days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to the King Mine section of the defunct Mashava Mine, former employees of the company staged a demonstration on Wednesday to protest against many i...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 15:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
JR Goddard opens up on lithium contract
BULAWAYO businessman Mr Jim Ross Goddard says his company will deliver the best service and render investment value after it won an earth-moving contract running into millions of dollars from Prospect...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
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