Zimbabwe’s Lithium Bonanza The Challenge of Assuring Maximum Local Benefit
Long-standing belief in the country’s mining potential It was 1965, the year of Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). Despite global condemnation of this political rebellion, there was strong optimism among many of the country’s White minority population regarding the country’s future. I was a teenager out from South Africa on a family visit […]
Zimbabwe: Can the Government Succeed in Beneficiating its Vast Lithium Resource?
An important announcement… In December 2022, the Zimbabwean Minister of Mines and Mining Development issued the following government notice: “No lithium-bearing ores, or un-beneficiated lithium whatsoever, shall be exported from Zimbabwe to another country.” The notice went on to state that the ban did not extend to any lithium concentrates which mining houses operating in […]
