Environmental (mis)management in Zimbabwe
In almost every province in Zimbabwe, there is a river, dam, or other water source that has been polluted. Land degradation, mainly as a result of illegal gold mining and sand poaching, has become a common phenomenon across the length and breadth of the landlocked Southern African country.
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Statutory Instrument 185 of 2021. [CAP. 21:05
Mining (General) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 (No. 26) 1024 Nature of Fee Approved Fees (ZWL$) Certificate of Registration after transfer per mining block 31 875,00 Section 275 Transfer of donated block of mining claims 63 750,00 Transfer of a Mining Lease 127 500,00 7. MISCELLANEOUS FEES Conversion of block 12 750,00
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Illegal sand mining in Uganda puts human, aquatic lives …
Illegal sand mining in Kakumiro District in western Uganda is degrading wetlands that are sources of water for residents and destroying the habitats of aquatic animals. Since 2014, more than 16 wetlands have been degraded in the district as a result of illegal sand mining, according to an environmental status report from the district's ...
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Students hail the Geological Society Symposium
A group of enthusiastic geology students from the Zimbabwe School of Mines (ZSM) who recently attended the Geological Society of Zimbabwe Summer Symposium and MacGregor Memorial Lecture, held at the …
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What is sustainable sand mining?
There are many drivers of land degradation in Zimbabwe, which include deforestation, veld fires, unsustainable farming practices and sand mining. Sand mining is emerging as one of the major drivers to land degradation in urban, semi-urban and rural service centres centre as well as growth points, mainly due to construction activities. For thousands of …
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Tracing and Determining the Duration of Illegal Sand Mining …
Artisanal and Small-scale river sand mining is one of the upcoming activities associated with the environmental crisis concerning the water ecosystem. However, the determination of the duration in which illegal sand mining has occurred, and the future prediction on the extent of river sand mining is not well-established in most of the world. This study aimed …
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Publications – Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association
Community Land Rights and Mining Induced Displacements in Zimbabwe. 1 file(s) 1,012.67 KB. Download. The Challenges and Opportunities of Trans Frontier Conservation in the Southern Africa Development Community: A close examination of the legal and policy frameworks governing the Kavango-Zambezi Trans Frontier Conservation Area.
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(PDF) Reclaiming mined-out pits at industrial …
Industrial sands mining is a crucial economic activity undertaken by medium-scale miners in Zimbabwe. Unfortunately, this mining practice leaves open pits, which have to be rehabilitated in...
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Key Mining projects and plant upgrades in Zimbabwe
The Mining Sector is a key player in the country's economic development. The sector contributes more than 60% of Zimbabwe's export receipts, attracts more than 50% of foreign direct investment (FDI), contributes about 13% to …
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A GIS and Remote Sensing Approach in Assessing Impacts of Mining …
In Zimbabwe, mining industry is growing at an alarming rate. There are various mining activities in Zimbabwe including Chegutu, Kwekwe, Kadoma and Zvishavane and these bring in various environmental changes including landuse change and water quality issues. Chegutu District located in Zimbabwe, is one of the areas dominated by various mineral ...
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Drivers and effects of construction-sand mining in Sub …
Sand mining in the Nzhelele River in South Africa is taking place in close proximity to local communities, and the water in these areas is found to be posing serious health …
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The potential impact of sand mining on water resources: …
Sand mining in southern Africa, driven by the construction sector's demand for river sediments, adversely impacts both water quality and quantity. The extraction, particularly through destructive methods like channel-wide instream mining, poses serious threats to river ... Zimbabwe (figure 1abc) spanning over 400000 km2 (Abiye & Leketa, 2021 ...
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The dynamics of Zimbabwe's sand mining frontier | Request …
We discuss claims of an imminent global sand scarcity, evaluate whether new mining frontiers such as Greenland could alleviate it, and highlight three action fields to foster a sustainable...
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Sand mining spirals out of control
Large swatches of land around the country are being disembowelled by illegal sand miners who are trying to keep up with demand from various mushrooming housing developing …
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Illegal Sand Mining Rampant in Harare Suburbs, Leaving …
In Zimbabwe, rapidly expanding suburbs have led to a high demand for construction materials, including the sand needed to make concrete, but by poaching and selling sand, sand miners are degrading the same suburbs they're helping to build. Harvesting sand causes erosion and environmental degradation, but in Zimbabwe's faltering economy, sand …
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Sand mining governance in post-apartheid South Africa: …
Sand mining in the Wild Coast is governed by complex regulations that are a source of conflicting jurisdictions between different scales and between agents, underpinned by overlaps, rivalries, and contradictions. From a land governance perspective, sand mining is identified as a concurrent legislative competence straddling all three spheres of ...
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Calls for transparency in mining contracts grow louder
Sand mining spirals out of control. ... Mining Zimbabwe is a leading publication and online platform that covers the mining industry in Zimbabwe. We provide up-to-date news, insights, and analysis on the country's mining sector, focusing on developments in mineral exploration, production, legislation, and market trends. ...
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Sand-poaching: Africa's growing disaster
Illegal sand mining is a global phenomenon — happening irrespective of legislation to regulate and monitor sand mining. ... The Zimbabwe Independent, a business weekly published every Friday ...
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AN ASSESSMENT ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF RIVER SAND MINING …
In Zimbabwe sand mining is also done at large scale especially in part of Zambezi valley where the deposit of sand is in abundance (Chimbodza, (2012). In areas along Ruckomechi and Chewore rivers however, a large mining company was awarded a mining license to extract sand resources for Zimbabwe's infrastructural development (Chimbodza, (2012
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The dynamics of Zimbabwe's sand mining frontier
While several scholarly interventions are devoted to accounting for the extensive ecological damage and ways of improving sand governance, this article focuses on politicising …
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Minerals found in Zimbabwe and areas of …
Zimbabwe is endowed with over 63 Minerals including Gold, Lithium, Platinum, Coal, Chrome, Copper, Diamonds and many others making it a heaven for mining investment. In the table below are Minerals found in …
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6 things you need to know about sand mining
However, lax and often unenforceable regulation of the global sand industry has seen Singapore's acquisition of sand go relatively undisturbed: a 2014 UNEP report into global sand mining observed a shortfall of 120 million tonnes between Indonesia's reported sand exports to Singapore versus Singapore's reported imports of Indonesian sand ...
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Lithium Mining and National Economic …
Lithium mining in Zimbabwe is a relatively new phenomenon fueled by the reconfiguration of the global automotive industry in favor of EVs. There is thus very limited scholarly research on the extraction and export of …
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(PDF) Mining in Zimbabwe: Sustainable Development …
These include Zimbabwe's mining legislation, environmental impacts of the mining industry at global level, in the SADC region and in Zimbabwe. Problems which confront the industry as well as their possible solutions in Zimbabwe are also examined. From a sustainable development (SD) point of view, mining poses a serious danger which should be ...
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Zimbabwe: Sustainable Sand Mining the Way to Go
For thousands of years, sand and gravel have been used in the construction of roads and buildings. Sand mining is one of the major drivers to land degradation in Zimbabwe's urban, semi urban and ...
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MRG Metals Accelerates Heavy Sand Mining in Mozambique and Zimbabwe
MRG Metals is accelerating exploration programs across its Zimbabwe and Mozambique project portfolio. Based on portable x-ray fluorescence results at the Shawa Multi-Element Carbonatite Project in Zimbabwe, 179 outcrop pulp samples and 299 sieved soil samples, along with a total of 550 quality control samples, have been delivered to SGS …
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Towards developing a framework to manage mining …
The manifestation of mining-induced land degradation and related-environmental impacts in rural areas of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has vast mineral deposits such as chrome and gold which are among the top extracted minerals that are causing substantial land degradation (Macheka et al., 2021; Meck et al., 2020).Sand mining is also among other anthropogenic …
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Miners seek gold under the desert sands after Egypt …
Mining companies awarded blocks in Egypt's Eastern Desert are set to start exploring for gold under a legislative overhaul that seeks eventually to unlock vast untapped mineral resources. Despite plentiful reserves and a rich mining history that gave rise to elaborate Pharaonic gold jewellery, Egypt has just one commercial gold mine in operation.
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An assessment of the impact of mining on the …
An overview of mining in Zimbabwe Like any part of the world mining played an important role in the economy of Zimbabwe. In Africa and in sub Saharan Africa in particular, Zimbabwe is one of the countries that have relied on the mining industry for economic growth. All the types of mining exist in the country, ranging from the formal and ...
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PUBLICATION: The dynamics of Zimbabwe's sand mining …
The case study shows that local dynamics configure sand extraction spaces into politicised and ungovernable extractive geographies. These findings are not only …
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