{"id":9986,"date":"2012-04-17T04:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/zimbabwe-orders-firms-to-resubmit-exploration-bids\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T04:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T02:19:28","slug":"zimbabwe-orders-firms-to-resubmit-exploration-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zimbabwe-orders-firms-to-resubmit-exploration-bids\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe orders firms to resubmit exploration bids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HARARE, April 16<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has ordered more than<br \/>\n100 mining and prospecting companies to resubmit applications to<br \/>\nexclusively explore for minerals, providing shareholder details<br \/>\nand proof of funding.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The order follows the ministry of mines&#8217; decision in January<br \/>\nto hike pre-exploration fees for most minerals by as much as<br \/>\n8,000 percent in a move the ministry said was meant to curb the<br \/>\nspeculative holding of mine titles.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the ministry said in a public notice it now<br \/>\nwanted 109 companies, including the largest gold miner Metallon<br \/>\nGold, the local operation of South African miner Metallon<br \/>\nCorporation, and individuals to make fresh applications.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The companies should show they have capacity to carry out<br \/>\nexploration work.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>None of the major miners like Rio Tinto, Anglo<br \/>\nAmerican Platinum and Impala Platinum, which<br \/>\nhave operations in Zimbabwe, were affected by the directive.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe, editing by Ed Stoddard)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, April 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has ordered more than 100 mining and prospecting companies to resubmit applications to exclusively explore for minerals, providing shareholder details and proof of funding. The order follows the ministry of mines&#8217; decision in January to hike pre-exploration fees for most minerals by as much as 8,000 percent in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}