Rutendo Chirume MBERENGWA— The reopening and expansion of Sandawana Mine has created a growing market for goods and services in one of Zimbabwe’s traditionally underdeveloped mining districts, but publicly available evidence suggests that women-owned...

EnviroPress Reporter BIKITA — For residents living on the fringes of Bikita Minerals, the question is no longer whether the lithium boom is transforming their community. It is whether their repeated grievances will produce...

EnviroPress Reporter MBERENGWA- High in Zimbabwe’s Mweza mountain range, where Sandawana was once synonymous with prized emeralds, a different mineral is reshaping the future of the mine — and potentially tying this remote corner...

EnviroPress Reporter BIKITA— The promise of China-Zimbabwe mining cooperation is being tested not in boardrooms in Harare or Beijing, but in the villages surrounding Bikita Minerals, where lithium mining has brought jobs, infrastructure and...

EnviroPress Reporter The lithium beneath Zimbabwe’s Mweza Range is attracting billions of dollars in potential investment. But before the next bulldozer cuts into the hills around Sandawana, environmentalists and communities face a more basic...

EnviroPress Reporter BIKITA — Zimbabwe’s push to extract more value from its lithium is gathering pace at Bikita Minerals, but beneath the promise of jobs, exports and industrialisation lies a harder question: how much...

EnviroPress Reporter Mberengwa’s Sandawana Mine is entering a new phase in its long history — and the environmental cost of that transformation is becoming a governance test for Zimbabwe. The former emerald-producing mine is...