Namib Minerals is bringing Redwing Mine back into production ahead of schedule, with the company targeting its first gold pour in November 2026. The accelerated restart follows Zimbabwe’s new rules for foreign-owned operators in the small- and medium-scale gold mining sector.
Caledonia Mining Corporation has signed financing agreements worth up to US$150 million with a consortium of Zimbabwean financial institutions to support construction of its Bilboes gold project.
Kavango Resources has received regulatory approval to operate a 50-tonne-per-day gold processing plant at its Hillside Gold Project in Zimbabwe, completing a key step in its plans to increase production from its local mining operations.
Tharisa priced a $300m, five-year bond on 11 September 2026 through its Arxo Finance subsidiary to complete construction of the Karo Platinum project in Zimbabwe, targeting first ore to the mill in late 2027.
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested a director of Orequest over an alleged scheme to smuggle more than 720 tonnes of raw lithium ore to Mozambique using fraudulent export papers.
Tharisa has secured a $300m five-year bond at an 11% coupon to fund the balance of its $545m Karo Platinum project, where first ore to the mill is now expected in the fourth quarter of 2027.
Zimbabwe's High Court has dismissed an attempt by Caledonia Mining's Blanket Mine to stop a $335,966 damages claim brought by the widow of a miner killed in a 2022 underground accident.
Sinomine Resource Group has secured an additional Zimbabwean lithium export quota as it continues building a 100,000-tonne-a-year lithium sulphate plant at its Bikita mine.
Sinomine Resource Group has been granted a further 300,000-tonne lithium concentrate export quota for its Bikita mine in Zimbabwe, on top of 200,000 tonnes allocated in April.
Chengxin Lithium has announced plans to build two lithium sulphate plants, one in Zimbabwe's Buhera district and one in Ilorin, Nigeria, with combined investment of about $476 million.
Karo Platinum has signed a 25-year Special Mining Lease Agreement with the Zimbabwean government covering 23,903ha on the Great Dyke, giving Tharisa the tenure and fiscal certainty it needs to finish the mine.
Tharisa's Karo Platinum project has signed a 25-year special mining lease with the Zimbabwean government, though first production is now expected in 2027, three years later than originally planned.
Zimbabwe's gold deliveries reached 26.05 tonnes in January to July 2026, ahead of 24.31 tonnes a year earlier, with small-scale and artisanal miners supplying 18.4 tonnes.
Zimbabwe earned $782 million from lithium exports in the first six months of 2026, up from $237 million a year earlier, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said in his mid-year budget review.
Valterra Platinum is recovering most of its current Zimbabwean export proceeds through tax offsets and central bank payments, but there is still no solution for about $100m owed from previous years.
Premier African Minerals has postponed restarting its Zulu lithium plant in Zimbabwe until it agrees a long stop date extension with offtake partner Canmax, and raised about £550,000 to fund operations.
Zimbabwe has railed its first 1,000-tonne shipment of lithium concentrate from Tsingshan's Gwanda mine to Maputo, using NRZ, Grindrod's BBR and Silvergill on a roughly 1,000km route.
Caledonia Mining said its Blanket mine in Zimbabwe produced 17,360oz of gold in Q2 2026, up 18% on the first quarter, with grades rising further in July.
A technical fault on ZESA Holdings' network caused a nationwide power outage in Zimbabwe on 6 July 2026, before engineers restored supply, underlining the fragility of the country's grid.
Zimbabwe's Lithium Producers' Association has asked the government to push the concentrate export ban back to June 2027, saying most processing plants will not be ready by January.
Mimosa, the Impala Platinum and Sibanye-Stillwater joint venture in Zimbabwe, is reviving a $130m life-extension project after PGM prices recovered from the lows that forced its suspension in 2024.
Zambia and Zimbabwe have each committed $220m in public equity to the long-delayed Batoka Gorge hydro scheme, a $4.2bn, 2,400MW project on the Zambezi, and held a market-sounding session in June 2026.
Zimbabwe delivered 3,951kg of gold to Fidelity Gold Refinery in May 2026, up 18.8% from April and the highest monthly total of the year so far.
Caledonia Mining released 2025 drilling results from its Motapa property in Zimbabwe, including 19m at 8.08g/t, and said a maiden resource would follow in the third quarter of 2026.
