Published: 21 February 2014

GAT Investments, a local company with interest in mining is evaluating the potential of extracting new pyrites deposits in Mazowe, about 40 kilometres north of Harare.

Pyrites are mostly used in the production of sulphuric acid, a critical raw material for fertiliser.

GAT owns Iron Duke Mine which has been dysfunctional since 2008.

The mine produced pyrites for Zimphos, while the bulk of it was exported to the Zambian Copperbelt province where it is used as a catalyst in the smelting of copper and cobalt.

The company has contracted MDM Engineering as feasibility study leaders, GAT director Victor Gapare this week said the whole process is expected to be completed by June 2015 "after which we will have a definitive feasibility study for a new mine."
- herald

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