HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe is planning to merge all diamond mining companies, including the local unit of Rio Tinto, into one big firm in which the state will own half of the shares, the minister of ...

Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said he has agreed with Finance Minister Tendai Biti to set up mechanisms to ensure that the entire proceeds of Wednesday’s diamond sale will go straight into Treasury ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Tuesday to lift sanctions on a Zimbabwean diamond-mining firm despite concerns over alleged fraud in a July election that kept President Robert Mugabe ...

HARARE: Zimbabwean police have recovered the bodies of three illegal diamond miners and are searching for up to seven more missing people, a week after government banned operations at diamond shafts, ...

The Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (ZDAMWU) has raised alarm over what it calls a growing trend of salary and employment under-declaration ...

The access was granted by Red Mercury, a company owned by the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust, which has received an undertaking from the government of Zimbabwe for a licence to mine ...

Zimbabwean Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said a forensic audit of diamonds mined in the controversial Marange field is under way, predicting that it will disprove charges by Finance Minister Tendai Biti ...

A new report by the SIVIO Institute has raised alarm over weak transparency and minimal community benefits in Zimbabwe's multibillion-dollar mining sector, ...

Zimbabwe’s biggest diamond miner is cutting 400 jobs, weighed down by a global downturn in the market for natural gems, a company representative said by phone. State-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated ...

Even if the yield of Zimbabwe's diamond mines is as reported by the Mugabe government, he has still likely shortchanged the national treasury by some $60 million, The New York Times reports. Mugabe, ...