MUTARE, ZIMBABWE – The young men brace for the first shock of cold water as they enter the river, easing their way into another day of illegal gold mining. David Mauta and Wisdom Nyakurima, both 18, stand knee-deep in the Odzi River near the eastern Zimbabwe mining city of Mutare and shovel gravel onto a woven mat.Web
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1 - COVID-19 has exacerbated an already complex situation. In recent years, Zimbabwe has suffered repetitive droughts, high inflation, and foreign exchange shortages leading to a weakened economy and natural …Web
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In 2019, killings by machete-wielding gangs at Zimbabwe's gold mines jogged the government into preventive action. But police sweeps alone cannot make the sector safe. ... Zimbabwe Situation, 14 …Web
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Health-related quality of life (EQ-5D + C) among people living in artisanal and small-scale gold mining areas in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study. Health Qual. Life Outcome ... This multiplicity of factors combines to create an overall situation that frequently places populations in LICs and LMICs at elevated risk of adverse public health ...Web
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The situation has abruptly changed in 2016 and in present 2017 with the country facing a cash crisis which has resulted in the introduction of bond notes as a source of mitigating the problem. ... Jena Gold Mines that were opened in 1898 and Blanket Gold Mine which is one of the biggest gold mines in Zimbabwe and is located to the …Web
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Source: 7 injured in gold mining clashes – NewsDay Zimbabwe BY MOSES MATENGA/SHARON BUWERIMWE/TATENDA CHITAGU AT least seven people were seriously injured after a machete-wielding gang reportedly aligned to former Zanu PF youth league provincial chairperson for Mashonaland West, Vengai Musengi, ran amok and …Web
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Source: Fight over gold mine intensifies – The Standard The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) will hear the much-hyped Makaha mining wrangle where a Mudzi-based gold mining company is seeking to overturn a recent Supreme Court ruling. Milmath Security Private Limited represented by its director Mathias Madziwanzira argued that …Web
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Once again the power of international solidarity has helped secure the release of activists supporting the global fight for popular mining sovereignty and basic human rights. 24 activists from eight countries, including Latin America, South Africa and Zimbabwe were arrested in Marange, Zimbabwe on 10 November 2017 while visiting a …Web
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EXCLUSIVE: Zimbabwe gold – new entrant, new strategy, new potential. The formal gold mining sector in Zimbabwe is really dominated by one mining player – Caledonia Mining Corporation. But …Web
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In Zimbabwe, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) 1 has long been an important economic sector and a contentious arena for policymaking. The sector involves rudimentary forms of mineral extraction, and extensive research has discussed its environmental risks ( Zwane et al., 2006 ). Research has also shown that it provides …Web
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Gold mining has been present in Zimbabwe for decades, empirical evidence has shown an association between mining and tree cover loss (Spiegel, 2009; Murwendo et al., 2011). Artisanal gold mining ...Web
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Seldo Mining (Pvt) Ltd and G&W Industrial Minerals are locked in a bitter legal wrangle over control of the eight gold-rich mining claims in Rushinga, but in October last year, Seldo, which could produce documents that it is the registered holder of the claims, went to the High Court seeking to stop G&W Industrial Minerals from carrying out …Web
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MUTARE, ZIMBABWE, Feb 23 2023 (IPS) - After other adolescent her age have gone to bed at around 10 pm, Kudzai commutes to a shopping centre near her home in Penhalonga, a mining area 25 kilometres outside the third largest Zimbabwean city of Mutare, to look for men to solicit . Clad in a black and white skirt with its hemline well …Web
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Zimbabwe government outlawed artisanal gold mining in June 2006, arguing that the practice was responsible for land degradation (Spiegel, 2009; 2015). 3. Surge in artisanal gold mining in Zimbabwe Artisanal gold mining can be traced as far back as the precolonial era in Zimbabwe when people used to trade with the Portuguese and Arab …Web
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POLICE in the Midlands province have urged mining companies and other stakeholders to come up with solutions to curb increasing cases of murder at mining sites as gun-toting and machete-wielding gangs terrorise the province. Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko yesterday said murder cases, especially at …Web
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This article examines how the country's gold mining sector has come under serious scrutiny as an area of conflict, highlighting problems at the national level policy …Web
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All That Glitters is Not Gold: Turmoil in Zimbabwe's Mining Sector. In 2019, killings by machete-wielding gangs at Zimbabwe's gold mines jogged the government into preventive action. But police sweeps alone cannot make the sector safe. Harare should adopt reforms that allow more citizens to mine legally and head off …Web
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The Bill seeks to repeal the existing mining law to adapt to over a decade of new national and international changes in mining as well as challenges affecting the sector and its linkages throughout the value chain. Miner-farmer disputes have been on the rise since the emergence of artisanal and small-scale mining activity in Zimbabwe ...Web
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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son Collins has partnered with Chinese Investors to pursue a gold mining project in Mutoko. Radnor Mine, which sits on some of the country's best goldfields in the Makaha area, is owned by ZimCN Investments, a joint venture between Collins and Chinese investors. Collins, who spoke to NewsDay …Web
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Environmental Problems caused By Illegal Gold Mining in Gwanda District, Zimbabwe Bhebhe D., Kunguma O., Jordaan A. and Majonga H.* ... situation of the miners. Data were collected using face-to ...Web
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While our approach may be comparable to that of who sought scenarios where artisanal mining revenues endorsed agriculture in Sierra Leone, there is one substantial difference: the situations we encountered in Zimbabwe tended to show the reverse movement of investment, with gold mining widely seen as the increasingly …Web
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The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency in its 2019 report noted that of 500 000 under 16s surveyed, 5,4% of this number were working in the mining and quarrying sector. The eradication of child labour in the artisanal sector is a natural consequence of formalising the sector because it becomes easier to monitor artisanal operations.Web
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Well known areas such as the Termite- Khanye trend in Silobela, the Dalny-Lily Fault zone in the Midlands Greenstone Belt, the Surprise Fault near Shurugwi and …Web
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The City of Kwekwe is sustained by both formal and informal mining activities. As industry collapsed owing to a decade-long political crisis, thousands of workers formerly employed by collapsing mining companies and downstream industries turned to artisanal gold panning for survival. Gold panning requires plenty of water for processing …Web
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And the sector is far from marginal: the international non-profit PACT found in 2016 that gold mining made up 2.6 per cent of Zimbabwe's Gross Domestic Product, "18% of exports, 28% of mining output, and 1% of government revenues (royalties only) and employed 7.1% of the labor force." ... Neither the desperate situation of the miners, ...Web
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A small mining town in Zimbabwe's midlands is falling apart as illegal miners spread their reach under roads and buildings. The government says it will carry out a geospatial survey in Kwekwe to avoid total destruction. The town, established in 1898, sits on some of the richest gold deposits in the country. A school has been shut down in one …Web
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6 May 4, 2014 10:52 PM. via Zimbabwe: Illegal gold panning destroying tourism – eTurboNews May 04, 2014. Illegal gold panning activities are taking a toll on the flora and fauna in the scenic district of Shurugwi, destroying the latent tourism the district is endowed with. With the imminent closure of Zimasco Mine — which used to spur ...Web
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Some studies argue that artisanal mining has become instrumental in poverty alleviation and rural development, employing about 100 million people worldwide, 16 …Web
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The US$12 billion mining industry represents a 344 percent increase from the US$2,7 billion registered in 2017. The growth to a multi-billion-dollar industry will be driven by gold, platinum ...Web
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Mercury used in gold mining causes 30 percent of global mercury pollution. Gadgets that uses mercury such as thermometers are now being replaced by new mercury-free technologies. Ghana, which is the leading gold producing country on the continent, has already abandoned the use of mercury in gold and silver recovery.Web
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0 October 5, 2023 9:40 AM. Source: Govt sweats over mineral leakages -Newsday Zimbabwe. Mines minister Zhemu Soda said the economy was losing massive potential revenues to the leakages. GOVERNMENT says mineral leakages are bleeding the country after it emerged that targeted deliveries to the Fidelity Gold Refinery (FGR) were on the …Web
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CNN —. Rescue teams in Zimbabwe are continuing the search for survivors, three days after a disused gold mine in the country's Chegutu district collapsed, killing at least 10 illegal miners ...Web
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A report by Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), argues that the escalation of the gold mining problems at Umfurudzi Park are in part, also a consequence Madziva mine, a nickel mine in ...Web
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Mupane gold mine, located about 30 km south-east of Francistown, is the only gold mine currently in operation in Botswana. The full details relating to the transaction were set out in a press ...Web
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The country, which earns about US$2 billion from gold annually, is losing at least US$100 million a month through smuggling and corruption. Zimbabwe gold output surged to 35.38 tonnes in 2022, spurred by new mining projects, timely payments and incentives to miners.Web
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