A crocodile skin and meat company investing in a gold mine drew a lot of side-eyes last year. But Padenga Holdings' investment in Dallaglio is now looking like a case of good timing. Dallaglio, the new owners of Eureka Mine,...
Prospect Resources, which is developing Arcadia lithium mine near Goromonzi, has begun construction of a pilot plant to produce high-purity petalite and low-iron spodumene. Long-lead equipment, such as flotation cells, have now been secured and the high-purity flotation plant is...
Bravura Holdings, owned by Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters, says it has raised US$1 billion to develop a new platinum mine at the Serui concession, where it has begun work to quantify the resource. The company has set an ambitious target...
Mineral exports grew 14% in the first nine months of the year and are the biggest source of funding for the foreign currency auction, central bank governor John Mangudya says. In the first nine months of the year, mining exports...
Zimbabwe mining executives are slightly more confident about 2021 than they were over 2020, but they expect no improvement on policy uncertainty and the lack of capital, a new survey out on Wednesday says. The Mining Business Confidence Index (MBCI),...
One of the major contributors to the efficiency of the Zimbabwe platinum mines was the “very different dynamic between employer and employee” on those mines compared with South African operations. That’s according to Impala Platinum CEO, Nico Muller, who was...
Invictus Energy says it has started field operations in Muzarabani, as part of a programme leading to planned exploration drilling in 2021. The company has also raised additional funding for the preparatory work by placing more shares with Mangwana, the...
A year ago, Premier African Minerals were buzzing about developing their new investment in Zimbabwe. A year later, after a string of false promises, the UK-listed small-cap miner is voicing its frustrations and looking elsewhere. Premier is invested in the...
French renewable energy firm Voltalia has won the contract to build a 12MW solar power plant at Blanket Mine in Gwanda. Caledonia, Blanket Mine’s holding company, last month raised US$13-million from a share sale to fund the project, expected to...
Hwange Colliery says coal production rose 84% in the first half of the year, but old debts continue to weigh on plans by the country's oldest coal miner to reverse years of decline. In the six months to June, total...

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