Crackdown chases away gold producers

TINASHE MAKICHI   A crackdown by the police and the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) on illegal gold miners has forced Zim Goldfields, a joint venture between Zimbabwe and Belarus, to end its operations in Penhalonga, in Mutare district, Manicaland Province, Business Times can report. The joint venture was signed in 2018 by the Mines and Mining Development…