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
Zimbabwe will in coming weeks sign agreements on the development and value addition of lithium lead batteries as the country seeks to transform the mining sector into a $12 billion industry in the nex...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 September 2019
Zimbabwe intends to vigorously pursue local value addition of its lithium resources to maximise export earnings from the mineral, a Cabinet Minister has said. Lithium is used to make various items inc...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2019
Minister of State for Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs Appolonia Munzverengi has applauded the new dispensation's "Zimbabwe is Open for Business" mantra, saying it is yielding positive results in h...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2018
PROSPECT Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ), a unit of Australia Stock Exchange-listed Prospect Resources Plc, has applied for special economic zone status (SEZ) for its multi-million dollar Arcadia Lithium proje...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 November 2018
President Mnangagwa has officiated at the ground breaking ceremony of the Arcadia Lithium Mine in Chikwaka, Goromonzi that is expected to have an initial investment of $ 165 million. The project is ex...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 November 2018
Zimbabwe's sole lithium producer, Bikita Minerals, has set its sights on beneficiating the mineral in a development that is expected to rake in more foreign currency for the country in line with Gover...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 November 2018
Australia Stock Exchange (ASX) listed Prospect Resources Plc says its Arcadia Lithium project, located 38 kilometres east of Harare, has proven capacity to generate nearly $3 billion in export revenue...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 November 2018
AUSTRALIA Stock Exchange (ASX) listed Prospect Resources, says its Zimbabwean unit, Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe, has secured $10 million export finance facility from the Reserve Bank through CBZ Bank Li...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 September 2018
KAMATIVI Mine in Matabeleland North is sitting on $ 1,9 billion worth of lithium on its dumps, which the Government is looking forward to start exploiting in the first quarter of next year.In an inter...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018
FULL lithium production at Kamativi Mine is expected to begin by June next year with investors saying exploration of the mineral at the defunct mine has been completed.In March this year, Jimbata, a w...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2018
ZIMBABWE Lithium Company is negotiating with RioZim to upgrade the Empress Nickel Refinery (ENR) and position it for battery grade lithium production.Lithium has become a much-sought after mineral not...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 June 2018
BULAWAYO businessman Mr Jim Ross Goddard says his company will deliver the best service and render investment value after it won an earth-moving contract running into millions of dollars from Prospect...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018
ONE of the top construction and civil engineering firms, JR Goddard (JRG), has been appointed as the earthmoving contractor for Prospect Resources' Arcadia Lithium Project.The lithium project, situate...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018
PLANS to expand Zimbabwe's lithium operations could increase the country's commodity risk exposure, the World Bank has said.In a report published last month, the World Bank said the southern African c...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018
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