Mining industry grapples with perfect storm
…. everything else dims, gold alone glimmers in the gloom.
PHILLIMON MHLANGA Machines hum. Generators growl. Hopes crumble. Across Zimbabwe’s mining towns, the air hangs heavy with uncertainty. Once the backbone of the economic promise, the mining sector now fights for survival in a perfect storm of falling global commodity prices, soaring operating costs and a crushing tax burden, now biting harder than ever. While…
