Aggregate Mineral Resources (AMR) is exploring joint venture opportunities and strategic partnerships aimed at upscaling small-scale mining operations, particularly in the gold sector, as artisanal m...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 October 2025
Vice-President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has called on coal mining companies in Hwange and the broader north-western region to pool resources and support the rehabilitation of the Victoria Falls-Bulawa...
By Staff reporter | Published: 13 October 2025
The Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe has called on the Zimbabwe School of Mines (ZSM) to take a leading role in equipping artisanal and small-scale miners with technical and managerial skills, saying thi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2025
Zimbabwe could be losing billions of dollars annually as reports indicate that approximately 85% of artisanal and small-scale gold miners (ASM) are not registered.The country has over 1 million ASM op...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 October 2025
The Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion is under pressure to meet local currency obligations owed to platinum exporters, as a US$400 million Afreximbank loan weighs hea...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 October 2025
Four artisanal miners lost their lives after a mine shaft collapsed at Mamini area, Umsasa Farm, Mazowe, on September 28.Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 02 October 2025
Five artisanal miners are feared trapped underground after a shaft collapsed at Mamini, Umsasa Farm in Mazowe on Sunday.The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) confirmed the accident, saying rescue operat...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 September 2025
The Office of the President and Cabinet in Manicaland has issued a directive requiring miners in the province to contribute a minimum of US$3,000 each towards Zanu-PF's upcoming 22nd National People'...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 September 2025
Four artisanal miners died last Thursday after a disused shaft collapsed at Chengxi Gold Mine in Shurugwi, police confirmed on Wednesday."The ZRP confirms a mine accident which occurred at Chengxi Go...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 September 2025
Small-scale miners have emerged as the driving force behind Zimbabwe's gold output in the first half of 2025, delivering the bulk of the 24.32 tonnes processed during this period.According to data fr...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2025
Zimbabwe's platinum miners are owed millions of dollars in unpaid exports income under the government's foreign currency retention rules, the mining chamber has said, hurting operations in a sector ba...
By Reuters | Published: 06 August 2025
Zimbabwe's mining industry says it has largely been shielded from the worst of the country's electricity shortages thanks to a targeted power rationing strategy that prioritises the sector. But operat...
By Staff reporter | Published: 01 August 2025
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
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 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
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
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
Parliament apologises to Mnangagwa 
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Zimbabwe's dollar stock exchange surges 45% 
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