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The arrival of huge mining corporations has left thousands in Marange feeling like prisoners in their own ancestral land. Trevor Kusena, 19, struggles to walk from his cottage to the veranda at his family home …
The Marange diamond fields are an area of widespread small-scale diamond production in Chiadzwa, Mutare West, Zimbabwe. ... Report on the Scientific …
The Auditor General' report raised loopholes in procurement systems of ZCDC and heightened red flags on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and this is a sad scenario for a community that is looking forward to receiving developmental benefits from diamond mining in Marange.
The issue of diamond mining companies not honouring their pledges to community trusts has been in the public domain. When the Marange-Zimnunya Community Share Ownership Trust was launched by President Robert Mugabe in July 2012, companies mining in the area pledged to contribute to the fund for the benefit of local communities.
Marange is currently ranked the largest diamond producing deposit on earth ranging over 300 square miles in Chiadzwa, a ward in the Mutare District of Zimbabwe (see Figure 1). Estimated to have ...
Anjin Investments, Marange Resources and Diamond Mining Corporation are mining companies involved in diamond exploration and mining in the Marange communal …
Zimbabwe's economy is floundering, and the current murkiness in diamond mining revenue does not augur well for 2023, when hotly contested elections at the parliamentary and presidential level ...
The Chiadzwa Diamond Fields located in Marange are widely regarded as the richest alluvial diamond deposits globally. In September 2019, the Company announced it has signed a Joint Venture Agreement with …
The Marange mining region in the east of Zimbabwe is estimated to have one of the world's richest diamond reserves and is a vital revenue earner for a country in a dire economic straits.
The Marange diamond fields are an area of widespread small-scale diamond production in Chiadzwa, Mutare West, Zimbabwe. ... Report on the Scientific Investigation of the Impact Of Marange Diamond Mining Operations on Water Quality in The Save And Odzi Rivers: Including Assessment of the Health, Environmental and Livelihoods …
Background Diamond mining in Zimbabwe had been operating at a minimum level before the commencement of large scale alluvial diamond mining in Marange in 2010. According to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) unpublished figures quoted in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report (2009), commercial diamond …
This is the summary of the reality on the lack of infrastructural development and an excruciating way of life that meets the eye on one's trip to Marange in general and the Chiadzwa diamond mining locale in particular. Villagers' hopes of better lives that came with the discovery of diamonds were high, yet ill-fated.
The diamond mining in Marange has been shrouded in secrecy and diamonds worth millions of dollars were shunted out of the …
From the early 1990s, South African diamond mining conglomerate De Beers started prospecting in the Marange area, about 100km south west of Mutare. Geologists …
Families displaced by diamond mining and those living close to Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields continue to sink deeper into poverty as the curse of the controversial gems persists. Diamonds were discovered in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe, in 2006, but more than a decade after formal mining started, thousands of people in the …
Under Zimbabwe law, mining companies have to pay 15% royalty on the value of diamonds mined, but the investor-friendly laws allow corporate taxes to be deferred until they recoup their capital investment.". Marange's 2014 diamond production is expected to reach nearly 17 million carats, valued at $53.10 (£31.55) per carat, the …
The Long, Troubling Tale of Marange Diamonds. July 19, 2019 by Rob Bates. This week, Russian diamond miner Alrosa announced that it had signed a joint venture agreement to explore for diamonds in …
A situation that has exacerbated human rights violations in Marange, Chimanimani, Premier Estates and Penhalonga in Manicaland Province. The surface gold mining activity currently taking place at Redwing Mine in Penhalonga is a worst case of breakdown of rule of law. Resource Leakages. Diamond leakages are continuing in …
The diamond mining in Marange has been shrouded in secrecy and diamonds worth millions of dollars were shunted out of the area with no benefit to the local people. Very little revenue has ended up ...
The Long, Troubling Tale of Marange Diamonds. July 19, 2019 by Rob Bates. This week, Russian diamond miner Alrosa …
The military's violent takeover of the Marange diamond fields in October 2008 occurred one month after ZANU-PF agreed to share power with the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the opposition ...
Early in 2016, the Mines Ministry ordered all diamond mining companies in Marange — Anjin, Jinan, Mbada Diamonds, DMC, Kusena and Gye Nyame — to cease operations, leading to the State's takeover under the Zimbabwe Diamond Consolidated Company. Source - sundaymail . More on: #Marange, #Diamonds, #Audit.
"These diamond mining companies are failing to co-exist with the locals," adds James Mupfumi, director of Centre for Research and Development (CRD), a trust based in Mutare. ... Following some upheaval in recent years, the Marange diamond fields are currently mined by two companies: the State-owned ZCDC and Anjin, a joint venture …
Since the beginning of commercial diamond mining activities in Marange in 2009, Zimbabwe's diamond sector has been opaque, with little revenue trickling into the treasury. Some of the mining companies are shelf companies which had no prior mining experience whilst others are registered offshore to avoid scrutiny. ...
ZIMBABWE CONSOLIDATED DIAMOND COMPANY (ZCDC) Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company is a Private Limited Company wholly owned by Defold Mine (Pvt) Ltd which has shareholding. …
The Marange mining region in the east of Zimbabwe is estimated to have one of the world's richest diamond reserves and is a …
The ZCDC was established as a merger of DTZ-OZGEO, Marange Resources, Kusena Diamonds, Diamond Mining Company and Gye Nyame, when Anjin and several other diamond miners were de …
Given that all the companies are into alluvial diamond mining using the open cast system, there is massive clearance of forests and the top soil in Marange, thereby affected both the water table and the quality of water. The clearance of land and forests in preference to diamond mining also means loss of wildlife habitat. Air and Noise Pollution
Marange. Marange is the name of diamond fields that spread over some 566.5 kilometers in Chiadzwa, Zimbabwe. These diamonds fields were discovered in 2006, at the peak of the political, economic and …
Families displaced by diamond mining and those living close to Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields continue to sink deeper into poverty as the curse of the controversial gems persists. Diamonds were discovered in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe, in 2006, but more than a decade after formal mining started, thousands of people in the vicinity of ...
Employees are a form of stakeholder demand for CSR . The chapter reviews labour management issues in Marange Diamond Mines. The mines were centre for illegal mining, human rights abuses and unfair labour practices. There is need of labour laws to protect workers and fight the abuse of employee rights.