{"id":5534,"date":"2024-08-23T05:25:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zimfa1.handy.co.zw\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:20:33","slug":"mining-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testdomain31.gov.zw\/?p=5534","title":{"rendered":"Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5534\" class=\"elementor elementor-5534\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e773bca e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e773bca\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1cbd9854 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1cbd9854\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mining is the major attraction in the country with over 60 international tradeable minerals. Zimbabwe has the second highest deposits of platinum in the world. Major mineral belts include: The Great Dyke belt (P.G.Ms., chrome, gold etc.), Coal field include Beit Bridge-Gokwe-Hwange belt and the Marange diamond fields.\u00a0Foreign investors are free to invest in the mining value chain which includes provision of finance and technical services, exploration, extraction, logistics, beneficiation and value edition.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Foreign investors are allowed to own 100% shareholding for mining operations in all other minerals except for platinum and diamonds which the foreign investor is expected to jointly own with the Government on a 49\/51 basis in favor of Govt.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6b51ef e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a6b51ef\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46d038c elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"46d038c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mines.gov.zw\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Ministry of Mines Website <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb74548 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb74548\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6>Quick Links\u00a0<\/h6><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/zmdc.co.zw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mmcz.co.zw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minerals Marketing Cooperation of Zimbabwe<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zsm.ac.zw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zimbabwe School of Mines<\/a><\/li><li>\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mining is the major attraction in the country with over 60 international tradeable minerals. 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Major mineral belts include: The Great Dyke belt (P.G.Ms., chrome, gold etc.), Coal field include Beit Bridge-Gokwe-Hwange belt and the Marange diamond fields.\u00a0Foreign investors are free to invest in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trade-and-investment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mining - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Delegates Portal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zimbabwe has the second highest deposits of platinum in the world. Major mineral belts. 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