{"id":3543,"date":"2026-05-22T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:06:27","slug":"zimbabwe-bars-foreign-operators-from-small-scale-gold-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=3543","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe bars foreign operators from small-scale gold mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>Zimbabwe banned foreign companies and individuals from small-scale gold mining in a move aimed at protecting local jobs and benefitting the domestic economy.<\/p>\n<p>All foreign investors and entities participating in small-scale mining must either increase production capacity and investment or halt their operations by January, Mines Minister Polite Kambamura said in Harare on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe small-scale gold-mining sector in Zimbabwe is reserved exclusively for Zimbabwean citizens,\u201d he said. It\u2019s for producers whose monthly output is no more than 20 kilograms and capital investment totals less than $15 million.<\/p>\n<p>Small-scale miners produce 65% of the country\u2019s gold. In the first four months of this year, Zimbabwean output totaled about 12,637 kg, up 1.3% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Zimbabwe #bars #foreign #operators #smallscale #gold #mining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe banned foreign companies and individuals from small-scale gold mining in a move aimed at protecting local jobs and benefitting the domestic economy. All foreign investors and entities participating in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5637,4956,158,3321,5806,5807,3590],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing","tag-bars","tag-foreign","tag-gold","tag-mining","tag-operators","tag-smallscale","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}