Small-scale miners are targeting at least 40 tonnes of gold output this year, up from 25 tonnes produced last year, following the implementation of more efficient mining methods in the sector. Gold is Zimbabwe’s single largest foreign currency earner while artisanal miners account for more than half the country’s national production. […]

A total of 21 deaths in 13 months has left a booming gold mining project run by locally-owned company Better Brands in Penhalonga just outside Mutare being stopped so as to bring sanity in the area following an increasing number of fatalities during the gold extraction processes as well as environmental […]

Lithium mining in Zimbabwe is on the rise with young entrepreneurs anticipating that the sector will produce millions of dollars in less than five years. Efforts to diversify lithium sources will attract foreign investment into Africa in the coming years as major economies look to secure the mineral for their battery supply […]

With growing global demand for ‘green’ cars and ‘smartphones’, Zimbabwe’s government ring fences its vast lithium reserves by banning the export of raw ores as investors gravitate to the Southern African nation for mining concessions. According to an African mining Markets report “Zimbabwe is the leading country in Africa to produce […]

Small-scale miners have been urged to make use of mining technology to improve their mining operations towards the realisation of the $12 billion mining industry by 2023. Speaking during the Minex Northen Region expo held in Glendale recently Shamva Mine Technical Services Manager Brighton Bumhira said sustainable mining ensures economic development. […]

The government has started canceling Exclusive Prospecting Orders (EPOs) that are not exploring mineralized areas for large-scale production within the mining sector, Great Dyke News 24 reports. Speaking during the Minex Northen Region expo held in Glendale recently, the Deputy Minister of Mines and Mining Development Dr. Polite Kambamura exposed challenges […]