The Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Winston Chitando, is set to speak at the upcoming African Mining Week (AMW), Africa’s premier gathering for mining stakeholders.
At the event, Minister Chitando is expected to highlight strategic investment opportunities within Zimbabwe’s mining sector, while emphasising the positive effects of recent regulatory reforms.
He will join fellow African mining ministers at the high-level Ministerial Forum, which will focus on investment prospects across the continent’s mining jurisdictions.
African Mining Week 2025 will take place under the theme, “From Extraction to Transformation: African Governments Driving Beneficiation and Value Addition.”
The forum will include presentations from ministers outlining national strategies to boost local value addition and increase revenues from mineral resources.
African Mining Week offers a key platform to explore the full range of mining opportunities across Africa.
The event runs alongside the African Energy Week: Invest in African Energies 2025 conference, scheduled for 1–3 October in Cape Town.
At AMW 2025, Minister Chitando will highlight Zimbabwe’s progress in advancing local content policies and community development, with the government reforming the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill to make community investment mandatory for mining firms.
The event will also showcase Zimbabwe’s growing mineral processing sector, particularly in lithium. Since the December 2022 ban on raw lithium exports, the country has attracted over $1 billion in new lithium processing investments, including major projects at Sandawana, Bikita, Mutoko, and Arcadia.
Zimbabwe also launched the $3.6 billion Palm River Energy Metallurgical Special Economic Zone and Industrial Park in Beitbridge, featuring a ferrochrome smelter, coal-fired power plant, and coal mine.
In gold, Zimbabwe targets to increase production to 40 tonnes in 2025, building on a 21.22% growth to 36.48 tons in 2024, supported by new discoveries such as Kavango Resources’ drilling results at the Hillside Gold Project.
The platinum group metals (PGM) sector is also a priority. Zimbabwe, home to the world’s second-largest platinum reserves, is working with partners like Karo Platinum, which is advancing the Ngezi mine, and Anglo American, which is expanding the Unki Mine, to boost production and investment.
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