Round diamonds worth an estimated U.S.$140 million have reportedly disappeared from the supposedly impenetrable Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and Zimbabwe ... Read more »
Efforts by the government to break a stand-off between Dinde villagers in Hwange and a Chinese investor hit a brick wall with the villagers insisting the coal mining project should ... Read more »
The bodies of eight people found at Orkney in South Africa have been identified, and are all from Lesotho, police say. Earlier, twenty bodies, wrapped in white plastic bags, ... Read more »
Miners in Botswana have uncovered what could be the third largest diamond of its kind in the world. The 1,098-carat diamond was unearthed on June 1, 2021 by Debswana, a joint ... Read more »
Zimbabwe Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga has admitted the country was losing millions of dollars in foreign currency through mineral leakages due to porous national ... Read more »
Tashinga Nyasha Masimire, the 33-year-old man arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle 23 pieces of gold worth R11 million (U.S.$784,238) into South Africa from Zimbabwe, has ... Read more »
Despite winning a U.S.$346 million settlement in 2018, miners who contracted tuberculosis (TB) and silicosis at work, and the family members of those who died, are still waiting ... Read more »
A total of 4,652 mining exploration licences were issued by the government in the financial year 2020/2021, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has revealed while tabling the 2021/2022 ... Read more »
In August 2020, out of the blue, the owners of the 28,000-hectare Selati Game Reserve received word that a company called Tiara Mining had plans to excavate a series of open-cast ... Read more »
President Joe Biden's administration has reinstated Magnitsky sanctions on Israeli businessman Dan Gertler for "extensive public corruption" in the DR Congo, overturning a ... Read more »
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