Zimbabwe invites investment in underground chrome mining
Zimbabwe last week invited chrome mining investors to focus on underground chromium operations rather than cheaper strip mining operations, from which most of the country’s chromium ore is currently extracted.
In a keynote opening address to the packed thirtythird Chromium Conference, Zimbabwe’s permanent secretary of the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development, Munesushe Munodawafa, expressed the view that the future of chrome mining in the country lay in underground mining rather than the current opencast methods, which he described as being limited in both quantity and quality.
“The future of chrome mining in Zimbabwe is in the developing of underground operations,” Munodawafa told the record number of 260 delegates from many parts of the world.
He urged investors in underground chrome mining operations to consider partnerships with Zimbabwe’s smallscale miners.
This story is from the November 17, 2017 edition of Mining Weekly.
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