The Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (ZIE) has secured a $40 000 grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) to help develop engineering and technical skills for young Zimbabwean engineers taking their first steps into industry. Read More

Zimbabwe’s plans to encourage local beneficiation of minerals have suffered a setback owing to the slump in commodity prices that has severely reduced mining companies’ revenues in the past two years. Read More

Zimbabwe must move quickly to harness biomining to extract gold, copper and other metals from low-grade mineral concentrates to maximize benefits and enhance efficiency in its mining sector which is grappling with rising production costs, a bioleaching research and development expert says. Read More

Zimbabwe’s efforts at redistributing wealth through Empowerment Schemes has registered various levels of success over the past seven years, raising questions on whether or not it would be prudent for government to revisit the whole process and correct many things that might have gone wrong. Read More

The mining industry, which has sustained the Zimbabwean economy for almost a decade now, showed resilience despite depressed mineral prices that characterised the better part of 2016. Read More