Marange Diamond Protests: What the Industry Should Know

Chiadzwa, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields are in the news again amid local concerns about one mining company returning to the area. More than two dozen …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Women struggles and large-scale diamond mining in Marange, Zimbabwe

The country received KP certification in order to sell Marange diamonds in March 2011, despite contestations among other KP members. The major diamond companies operating in the region include Anjin (a Chinese company), Mbada Diamonds, Marange Resources, and Diamond Mining Company (Dubai Based Company).

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Inside Zimbabwe's controversial Marange diamond field

All four mining companies - Marange, Mbada, Anjin and DMC - have been certified to sell their diamonds on the international market by the Kimberley Process. Read more: What are 'conflict ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

(PDF) The Indigenisation Policy and Economic

Companies mining diamonds in Marange-Zimunya were Jinan, Anjin Investment, Marange Resources, Mbada Diamonds and Marange at the time of the study. Some of these companies indicated that they did not pledge to pay $10 million apiece. Table 1 shows that only two companies, DMC and Anjin had managed to contribute USD200 000 each towards CSOTs. ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Marange Diamond Protests: What the Industry Should Know

Now, according to numerous reports and sources on the ground, Anjin is once again mining diamonds in Marange. The Zimbabwe Independent reported that Anjin took over Portal B, a diamond-rich mining claim in Marange, under "unclear circumstances." Local news stories dating back to 2019 indicate the miner returned a few years ago.

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Marange: world's largest diamond producer?

Marange is currently ranked the largest diamond producing deposit on earth ranging over 300 square miles in eastern Zimbabwe. Estimated to have produced almost 17 million carats in …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Alluvial Diamond Mining in Marange

Alluvial diamond mining in Marange started at the backdrop of a violent and brutal military operation that elbowed out thousands of artisanal miners who had besieged the …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

The story of Zimbabwe's Marange diamonds: Pollution, …

Some of the mining companies in Marange, armed with the special grant issued by the President, defied local environmental laws by starting mining before environmental impact …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Zimbabwe: Army-Linked Anjin Grabs Richest Diamond Claim

In 2016, ex-president Mugabe banned the companies that were mining in Marange and his allies have claimed he knew that the army, which was benefiting from underworld diamond trade, was planning ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company …

FAMILIES displaced by diamond mining and those living close to Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields continue to sink deeper into poverty as the curse of the controversial gems persists. Diamonds were discovered in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe, in 2006, but more than a decade after formal mining started, thousands of people in the vicinity of ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Inside Zimbabwe's controversial Marange diamond field

There are four diamond companies operating in the area. With a large delegation of government minders in tow, CNN was first taken to visit Marange Resources. It is …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

(PDF) The Indigenisation Policy and Economic

The study established that the five diamond mining companies doing business in the two communities had failed to honour their pledges of contributing USD10 million each towards the development of ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Zimbabwe's top diamond mining firms agree to merge

Zimbabwe's diamond industry will soon be controlled by one firm as the country's major diamond mining companies have agreed to merge. ... A total of seven companies operating in Marange ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Transforming Zimbabwe's Marange diamond sector …

mining company, Mbada Diamonds, from Marange, was done without due process and the Court prohibited the ZCDC entering the Mbada concession, the largest in Marange. This judgement marks a significant departure from the way in which the industry appeared to heading under the previous government and could even pave the way for the return of ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

The curse of diamonds: How Zimbabwe's wealth is failing its …

According to Amnesty International, 90% of Marange residents reported experiencing human rights abuses related to diamond mining. Over 500 cases of forced labour have been documented in Marange ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Governance reforms and national benefits

Navigating the hills and voluntary confinement: Magweja and the socio-economic and political negotiation for space in the diamond mining landscape of Chiadzwa in Zimbabwe, 2006-2009 Tinashe Nyamunda New Contree a Journal of Historical and …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Alrosa kicks off diamond exploration in Zimbabwe

The move is a welcome boost to the southern African nation's attempts to expand diamond mining revenues. Zimbabwe first began allowing foreign companies to dig up precious stones in 2018 ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Diamond Fields Zimbabwe: End Repression in Marange

The 62-page report, "Diamonds in the Rough: Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe," documents how, following the discovery of diamonds in Marange in June 2006, the police and army have used brutal force to control access to the diamond fields and to take over unlicensed diamond mining and trading.

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Women struggles and large-scale diamond …

The major diamond companies operating in the region include Anjin (a Chinese company), Mbada Diamonds, Marange Resources, and Diamond Mining Company (Dubai Based Company). The Government of Zimbabwe, through …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Anjin Investments, Marange Resources & Diamond Mining …

In September 2012, ZELA and five Marange residents filed a lawsuit against Anjin Investments, Marange Resources, and Diamond Mining Corporation. In response, the defendants challenged the application by bringing a special plea alleging that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter and it ought to be heard by the Environmental Management ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Marange Diamonds | Geological Society of Zimbabwe

The Marange diamond area is now secured against illegal mining activities, and four companies are commercially exploiting the resource. Families that have been disturbed by the mining …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

A Report on Social Corporate Responsibility by companies …

Marange development trust also do monitoring initiatives on social service delivery by the government and companies mining diamond in Chiadzwa to enhance and promote development in Marange . This report is going to focus mainly on social corporate responsibility by mining companies in Chiadzwa since their inception in 2009.

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

A Report on Social Corporate Responsibility by companies in …

This report is going to focus mainly on social corporate responsibility by mining companies in Chiadzwa since their inception in 2009. These companies include Mbada …

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Why is a company accused of looting diamonds back in

Two years later, the government granted Anjin a licence to mine diamonds in Marange. The company remained in the area until it was evicted by Mugabe in 2016, along with several other mining companies.

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Mbada Diamonds bounces back?

The Special Grant expired in 2013 but Government did not renew it alongside other companies operating in Chiadzwa, Marange. Diamond mining companies were dramatically evicted from the Marange area of Manicaland in 2016. In February of 2016, government gave all the diamond mining companies a 90-day ultimatum to remove their equipment after ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

The Long, Troubling Tale of Marange Diamonds

Diamond mining in the Marange area of Zimbabwe (image courtesy of the Centre for Resources and Development) ... In February 2016, the government evicted seven companies that were mining there and appointed a government-owned company, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Co. (ZCDC), to take over.

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Rampant Abuses in Marange Diamond Fields

(Johannesburg, August 30, 2011) – Zimbabwe police and private security guards employed by mining companies in the Marange diamond fields are shooting, beating and unleashing attack dogs on poor ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

Alluvial Diamond Mining in Marange

Mining operations by these companies namely Anjin, Mbada diamonds, Marange Resources, Diamond Mining Company (DMC), Jinan, Gye Nyame, and Kusena diamonds have remained secretive over the years with government receiving insignificant revenues in spite of being the major shareholder. Revenue loss When the KP partially lifted the trade embargo on ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

(PDF) THE IMPACTS OF DIAMOND MINING ON …

In 2009 the government legalised diamond mining in Chiadzwa through the introduction of diamond mining companies such as Marange resources, Diamond Mining Company (DMC), Anjin, Mbada Diamonds just to mention a few. The diamond mining companies acquired licences from the Mines and Mineral Act. From 2009 the informal or illegal miners were ...

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073

The Extractive Industries and Society

inorder to sell Marange diamonds March 2011, contestations among other KP members. The major companies operating in the region include Anjin (a company), Mbada Diamonds, Marange Resources, and Mining Company (Dubai Based Company). The Govern-of Zimbabwe, through the Zimbabwe Mining Development (ZMDC), entered into joint venture agreements – 50/

WhatsApp: +86 18221755073