BUSINESS REPORTER
Mazowe Mining Company (MMC), a gold mine owned by Metallon Corporation, is set to resume underground mining as part of a corporate strategy.
The purpose of the action is to guarantee safer mining methods by reintroducing shaft mining and comprehensively renovating mining areas safeguarding the environment, the local community, and the lives and well-being of miners.
“MMC announces steps to resume underground shaft operations as part of a corporate strategy. This will entail reintroducing shaft mining and extensively rehabilitating mining areas,” the company said in a statement.
It continues: “This step is necessary to ensure that mining is conducted safely, thereby averting loss of life and injury to miners and protecting local communities and the environment. Consequently, MMC is ending all unsafe near-surface mining in favour of more secure operations.”
