The Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has urged all artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) to promptly engage registered mine surveyors to avoid operational disruptions following a new government direc...
By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 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
The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has called on the Zimbabwean government to urgently intervene and halt alleged human rights abuses being committed by a Chinese-linked mining company ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 July 2025
Zimbabwe has gazetted a sweeping new Mines and Minerals Bill that seeks to clamp down on speculative mining claim hoarding while ensuring only credible investors participate in the extraction of strat...
By Staff reporter | Published: 29 June 2025
Former Zimbabwean miners who worked in South African mines under the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (Wenela) have appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene in efforts to secure th...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 June 2025
The Mines and Minerals Bill (H.B. 1, 2025) has been officially gazetted, marking a significant step toward modernising Zimbabwe's mining legislation, which currently dates back to the colonial era.The...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2025
Zimbabwe's long-anticipated Mines and Minerals Bill is under fresh scrutiny, with industry stakeholders warning that the proposed legislation remains opaque, exclusionary, and dangerously susceptible ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 20 June 2025
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended an invitation to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to explore Zimbabwe's vast mineral wealth, as part of efforts to revive the country's struggling ec...
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
South African mining giant Sibanye-Stillwater has committed to injecting R300 million (US$16,44 million) in capital expenditure into Mimosa Mine in 2025, despite the Zimbabwean platinum operation post...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 May 2025
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...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2025
Zimbabwe's mining sector delivered a mixed performance in the first quarter of 2025, with mineral export volumes registering notable growth, but overall revenues falling sharply. This is according to ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 17 April 2025
Zimplow, one of Zimbabwe's biggest suppliers of farm and construction equipment, is grappling with two stubborn challenges that have become all too familiar: the rise of the informal market and exclus...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 April 2025
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya has called on government to re-align mining laws to decriminalise the possession of gold to increase production by artisanal miners.Speaking at ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019
GRANITE producers are making frantic efforts to avoid a ban on exports to save their operations and jobs in the sector, businessdigest has learnt.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has tasked Industry minis...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2019
ZIMBABWE is not in a position to liberalise domestic gold marketing and buying as this will negatively affect the flow of foreign currency into the economy, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) deputy gover...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2019
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered a Chinese company to stop its planned quarry mining activities in Domboshava, following an outcry by over 20 000 villagers who had already been ordered to vaca...
By Staff reporter | Published: 01 May 2019
Villagers in Mutoko were left scavenging for water after a local granite mining company, upon closing shop, sealed off boreholes it had drilled in the area.In his report during a provincial coordinati...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 April 2019
Small-scale gold producers in Masvingo province have welcomed the recent price increase of the yellow metal on the world market and pleaded with Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) to localise the in...
By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019
GOVERNMENT should expedite implementation of the "use it or lose it" concept as announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa so as to unlock new economic opportunity and create more jobs, small scale min...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2019
Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF), the umbrella body representing small-scale miners, is opposing applications for Exclusive Prospecting Orders (EPOs) made by 11 local and international mining companie...
By Staff reporter | Published: 31 January 2019
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation (ZMF), the representative body of small-scale miners, says it is pushing for a licence to import fuel for onward distribution to its members to ensure continuity of producti...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 January 2019
Some artisanal miners are feared dead after a mine shaft they were working in in Shurugwi collapsed at the weekend. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon at Wonderer Mine, one of the oldest mine...
By staff reporter | Published: 01 January 2019
THE Zimbabwe Miners' Federation (ZMF) says the prevailing fuel shortage has significantly crippled small-scale mining operations as most of its members use diesel. Zimbabwe has been experiencing fuel ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 31 December 2018
GOROMONZI miner Phillip Makanya has petitioned the High Court to charge businessman Tawanda Nyambirai with contempt of court for ignoring a court order barring him from interfering with his mining act...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 December 2018
Concern over Masvingo black market 
Kenya declares three days of mourning for Mugabe 
UK's Boris Johnson quits over Brexit stretegy 
SecZim licences VFEX 
Zimbabwe abandons debt relief initiative 
European Investment Bank warms up to Zimbabwe 
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