Australian mining company, Prospect Resources Limited, has agreed to sell its Step Aside Lithium Project in Zimbabwe to Fatima Resources Pty Ltd for up to US$2.2 million. The decision to offload the ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 November 2025
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has issued a firm directive to Zimbabwe's lithium mining industry, ordering all companies to cease the export of raw ore and spodumene by January 2026 and to im...
By Staff reporter | Published: 06 November 2025
Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ), a subsidiary of China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Limited, has commenced the construction of a 70-megawatt (MW) power station as part of its strategy to strengthen energy...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 October 2025
China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt plans to extract more than 60,000 metric tonnes of lithium sulphate during the first quarter of 2026 from its new $400 million plant in Zimbabwe, the company says.This ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 21 October 2025
Zimbabwe is set to produce its first lithium sulphate by early next year following the completion of a US$400 million processing plant at the Prospect Lithium Mine in Goromonzi. The milestone comes a...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 October 2025
The first phase of construction at the US$400 million Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe sulphate plant is expected to be completed early next year, Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando has ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 17 October 2025
Chinese high-tech enterprise Huayou Cobalt is making a major investment in Zimbabwe's mining sector, committing approximately US$400 million to complete a state-of-the-art lithium sulphate processing ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 September 2025
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) is set to establish a lithium processing plant as part of efforts to position Zimbabwe as a key player in the global battery value chain.The announcement was ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 September 2025
Sabi Star Mine, operated by Chinese-owned Maxi Mind, is at the centre of environmental havoc in Mukwasi Village, Buhera. The lithium boom, while fuelling Zimbabwe's economic ambitions, has made l...
By Kovedzayi Takawira | Published: 21 August 2025
Zimbabwe's crumbling railway system, once the backbone of the economy, has become a major obstacle to growth, inflating transport costs, stifling exports, and threatening emerging sectors such as lit...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2025
Zimbabwe is losing millions of dollars through the illicit export of raw lithium, despite a government ban introduced in 2022 to force miners to process the mineral locally. The ban, first imposed un...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2025
After decades of isolation, Britain has returned to Zimbabwe - not with apologies, but with a billion-dollar shopping list and a polished script about "mutual benefit." At the centre of the conversati...
By Sizwe SikaMusi | Published: 09 August 2025
Lithium batteries meant to power homes are instead turning them into death traps, as a surge of fires linked to poorly installed solar systems sweeps across Bulawayo.So far this year, 10 homes have be...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2025
A United Arab Emirates-based company has allegedly lost US$60,620 in a failed lithium deal with a local firm, prompting fraud charges against Nasha Weal Musa, director of Nasha Industries and Commodit...
By Staff reporter | Published: 05 August 2025
In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, approached a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique carrying a sealed container he believed held chrome, a mineral listed on the shipment paperwork. Having t...
By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2025
Africa, which holds significant estimated shares of the world's total reserves of bauxite (24%), cobalt (49.4%), copper (7%), graphite (21%), lithium (6%), manganese (43%), nickel (4.2%) and rare eart...
By Sikhululekile Mashingaidze and Stephen Buchanan-Clarke | Published: 24 June 2025
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...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2025
Premier African Minerals Limited has announced a major development in its flagship Zulu Lithium and Tantalum Project in Insiza, Matabeleland South, after settling US$1.1 million worth of contractor in...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2025
Zimbabwe will prohibit the export of lithium concentrates starting January 2027, as part of government efforts to compel foreign mining companies to establish processing and refining facilities within...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2025
The Economic Justice for Women Project (EJWP), in partnership with the Southern Africa Trust (SAT), has launched a groundbreaking gender-centred initiative aimed at promoting feminist climate action i...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 May 2025
A tense standoff is unfolding in Bikita, where eight families settled on George Nollen Farm under Chief Marozva in the year 2000, as part of Zimbabwe's land reform programme, are now facing eviction. ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2025
A Bulawayo-based engineering company, VEET Engineering, has been encouraged to tap into the booming global market for lithium batteries and contribute to Zimbabwe's industrial growth and economic reco...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2025
Chinese battery manufacturing giant Huayou Cobalt is intensifying its focus on Zimbabwe's Arcadia Lithium Mine, as it pushes forward with a lithium sulfate project aimed at significantly reducing prod...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2025
Zimbabwe is set to begin large-scale manufacturing of solar panels and lithium batteries as part of a bold new initiative to boost the country's renewable energy sector. The development follows the re...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 April 2025
PREMIER African Minerals will soon meet the Mining Affairs Board over the company's application for an Exclusive Prospecting Order (EPO) at its Zulu Lithium and Tantalite project in Matabeleland South...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 September 2019
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