DAGGERS have been drawn against Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa for abetting the unending cash crunch by failing to put in place measures that will allow licensed chrome producers to resume chrome ore exports, undermining a potentially p...

Steel makers in the state battling steep ore prices and exorbitant transportation cost have sought the intervention of chief minister Naveen Patnaik to overcome their woes.

Government is working on a Statutory Instrument that will provide legal modalities for exporting chrome ore, Deputy Mines and Mining Development Minister Fred Moyo said.

ASSORE paid a final dividend of R3 per share despite a tough year in which profits were eroded by weak commodity prices, particularly in iron ore and manganese.

“Substantially” lower iron-ore and manganese prices and challenging operating conditions have contributed to JSE-listed Assore posting lower headline earnings and profit for the 2015 financial year. Headline earnings were down 53.3% to R2-billion, compared w...

With its focus maintained on its dump retreatment operations, Aim-listed Sylvania Platinum is considering placing its Grasvally chrome exploration project up for sale during the 2016 financial year. The platinum group metals (PGMs) producer expected to complet...

THE ZIMBABWE MINERS Federation (ZMF) says Government is negotiating with ZimAlloys and Zimasco for the release of chrome claims along the Great Dyke in a move that is aimed at empowering tributaries following the lifting of the ban on raw chrome exports. ZMF c...

VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says government will soon launch a special purchase vehicle (SPV) to enable it to buy chrome ore directly from miners and smelters at international market prices and sell it to Russia for maximum benefit to the country.