The federal government has banned the export of unbenecifiated base mineral ores besides beneath a written allow from the Minister of Mines and Mining Growth.
Base minerals imply all minerals and mineral substances, aside from the nuclear power supply materials, valuable metals, valuable stones, mineral oils, pure gases, and coal.
By way of Statutory Instrument 5 of 2023, Minister of Mines and Mining Growth Winston Chitando (MP) issued the Base Minerals Export Management (Unbeneficiated Base Mineral Ores) Order, of 2023.
The order ban the export of unbenecifiated base mineral ores besides beneath a written allow from the Minister with rapid impact. A part of the order reads:
No unbeneficiated base mineral ores shall be exported from Zimbabwe to a different nation besides beneath written allow of the Minister given in both of the next circumstances of written utility to him by any miner or different person-
(a) the export of any unbeneficiated base mineral ore in respect of which the applicant produces compelling causes to the Minister exhibiting that no such ore is able to being beneficiated to any extent inside Zimbabwe, or
(b) the export of samples of any unbeneficiated base mineral ore for assaying outdoors Zimbabwe, upon manufacturing of proof passable to the Minister that such assay can’t be satisfactorily completed in Zimbabwe and that the amount to be exported for that goal is critical for that goal.
The Base Minerals Export Management (Unbeneficiated Lithium Bearing Ores) Order, 2022, revealed in Statutory Instrument213 of 2022 is repealed (with out, nevertheless, affecting the validity of something completed by the Minister beneath that Order).
Final month, Chitando banned the export of uncooked lithium in an effort to advertise worth addition and beneficiation of the mineral.
