Another resource curse? Black Granite from Mutoko, …
Mutoko is in Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe. [1] Quarrying companies are extracting the 'black granite' in Mutoko for export. The black granite has …
Community as a Conflict Catalyst: Black Granite Mining in Zimbabwe
In the village of Mutoko, Zimbabwe, Villagers are feeling the negative effects of black granite mining. Mining has created huge open pits that have killed people and livestock, damaged homes due to blasting, caused environmental damage, eroded grazing lands, and showed a total disregard for ancestral land rights.
Black granite mining: The bane of Mutoko
CRG mining company is said to have invaded Mutoko's sacred mountain called Kakomo Kevasikana and locals believe this is an infringement of their cultural …
For Villagers in Zimbabwe, Lithium Boom Might Prove a Bust
MUTOKO, ZIMBABWE — "I have been dreaming about these precious stones for the past 11 years. ... Mutoko, a mountainous rural district, has always been home to black granite, a highly priced stone used in homes, kitchens and buildings. ... While locals in Mutoko have been waiting months for their mining licenses, which …
Mutoko RDC
The District is rich in mineral resources including lithium, gold, tantalite, black and white granite. Development of mining operations and establishing mineral processing facilities can unlock the economic value of these resources.
Politics at play in Mutoko's black granite mining
At least 98% of black granite extracted from Mutoko is exported to European countries such as Germany, Spain and Italy. According to the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, Mutoko district produces 75% of the country's black granite.
'They Want To Remove Us And Take The Rock': Mutoko …
A convoy of trucks laden with huge black granite rocks trundles along the dusty pathway as a group of villagers look on grimly. Every day more than 60 trucks take granite for export, along this rugged road through Nyamakope village in the district of Mutoko, 90 miles east of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.
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Black granite mining, Mutoko demands development share
MUTOKO (Mining Index) – MUTOKO villagers have called on granite mining companies to proactively contribute to the district's development initiatives.The call was made during an all stakeholders held at Chief Mutoko's court on Friday last week. By Business Reporter – Tuesday 30 June 2020. The meeting brought together five of the …
Mutoko black granite SEZ mining project to
By Business Reporter – Tuesday 5 March 2019. HARARE (Mining Index) – BLACK granite mining and value addition is expected to attract US$20 million worth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), with a projected annual revenue of US$5 million turning Mutoko into an industrial hub for black granite extraction, cutting, polishing and …
The curse of Mutoko's black granite
Government recently summoned five Mutoko black granite mining companies and ordered them to comply with indigenisation laws through contributing to the Community Share Ownership Trust (CSOT) or ...
Black granite mining and the implications for the …
"Black granite mining and the implications for the development of sustainability in Zimbabwe: the case of Mutoko communities," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 15(6), pages 1527-1541, December.
Zimbabwe losing significant revenue from black granite in …
By Lucy Tandi. MUTOKO, Zimbabwe – Despite being a global producer of black granite, there has been very little economic and social benefit to Zimbabwean mining communities who are receiving a fraction of the revenue generated in black granite mining while a significant amount generated is lost through illicit financial flows (IFFs), …
Politics at play in Mutoko's black granite mining
According to the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, Mutoko district produces 75% of the country's black granite. ... in the extraction of black granite in Mutoko and this has made ...
Zimbabwe's black granite value-addition records major …
A Chinese-owned firm, Richbasin Minerals, is set to invest US$5 million into a cutting and polishing plant in Mutoko, a move that embraces the government's calls …
Black granite mining and the implications for the …
Small- and large-scale mining land acquisitions and mining establishments continue to grow in Zimbabwe, but the question about the development of sustainability remains problematic.
'They Want To Remove Us And Take The Rock': Mutoko Villagers
Mutoko stone is sought after for its lustre. It is a popular material for tombstones. An extension to the Danish royal library in Copenhagen, known as the Black Diamond, is clad in Mutoko granite.
'Our own law is making us beggars': Understanding the …
The high qualit y of Zimbabwe's black granite means it fetches a ... Black granite mining in Mutoko has for some time been a ... excerpt gives additional details to the key challenges of the ...
Granite Mining Firms Displace Defenseless Buja with …
A granite mine fast encroaching homes in Mutoko, Eastern Zimbabwe / Credit: Humanitarian Eye. Chakavinge has since engaged community monitors for redress, however the miners are reluctant to renegotiate. Some villagers have given up on seeking compensation altogether discouraged by the unfair treatment of neighbors by granite …
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Black granite mining: The bane of Mutoko
Mutoko women pray that the government of Zimbabwe could listen to their grievances with regard to granite mining and help fix waning relations between miners and locals. Families have lost their loved ones who fell into gullies left open by granite mining companies in the district.
Zimbabwe: A Black Diamond Curse for Mutoko
Guest Column - The paradox of resource abundance typically explains the case of black granite mining in Mutoko, Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe. The area is home to the best black granite ...
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Contact & Directions ... In this article we ask how the extraction of black granite used in grand buildings in the West is experienced by mine-affected people in Zimbabwe's Mutoko District. We seek to bring forth voices of those affected by mineral extraction including its governance processes, to produce an account of mining anthropology ...
Build a structure to symbolise black granite
Speaking to Mining Zimbabwe Eveline Kutyauripo from the MNCDT had this to say: " I grew up whilst mining operations were already in existence in the Mutoko area. Surprisingly from 1972 up to date, …
Map of Mutoko District showing the wards. Wards where …
Wards where black granite extraction is ongoing are marked by a pickaxe. from publication: 'Our own law is making us beggars': Understanding the marginal …
Black granite: meagre revenue from prized …
For 50 years, black granite has been mined primarily in the north-eastern parts of the country, in areas such as Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe, Murehwa and Mutoko. Zimbabwe produced 223 356 tonnes …
Mining Revenue & Service Delivery in Mutoko 12.2020
Contact: Kudzai Chatiza, ... 1.2 Mining in/and Zimbabwe with a focus on Mutoko ... black granite production is from Mutoko with some estimates putting this at 75%.
'Our own law is making us beggars' : understanding the …
I begin this research by asking how people in Mutoko district experience black granite mining and its governance. I inquire seeking to bring forth voices from below, those affected first-hand by extraction and produce an ethnocentric account of mining anthropology rooted in the Habermasian concept of the lifeworld and how its ...
Chinese Continue Mining Black Granite in Mutoko, …
An extension to the Danish royal library in Copenhagen, known as the Black Diamond, is clad in Mutoko granite. The increasing demand on the international market has spurred a rush by both local …
Map of Zimbabwe and location of Mutoko
Download scientific diagram | Map of Zimbabwe and location of Mutoko from publication: Rethinking indigenous climate governance through climate change and variability discourse by a Zimbabwean ...