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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 88054, member: 27"]
A fast-tracked lithium export ban just landed in Zimbabwe after miners allegedly gamed the transition window meant for building local processing capacity.

Zimbabwe slams the door on raw lithium
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[*]Constantino Chiwenga endorsed the immediate raw-exports prohibition.
[*]Originally, the ban was penciled in for 2027.
[*]Miners reportedly stockpiled ore during the grace period.
[*]Some allegedly smuggled lithium to a neighboring country.
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Chiwenga goes off at Sandawana Mine
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[*]His tour featured a blunt warning about wasted resources.
[*]Chiwenga called exporting unprocessed minerals genuinely foolish.
[*]Future generations would basically despise today's leaders, he said.
[*]Roads got wrecked by trucks hauling raw lithium.
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Value-addition push picks up steam
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[*]Sandawana Mine is fast-tracking a lithium concentrator plant.
[*]That facility carries a price tag of around US$275 million.
[*]Processing capacity targets three million tonnes yearly.
[*]December 2027 is the expected commissioning date.
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Ownership and policy backdrop
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[*]Mutapa Investment Fund holds Sandawana Mine.
[*]Polite Kambamura flagged rampant abuse of the transition window.
[*]Environmental damage and trashed infrastructure yielded zero payoff.
[*]Chiwenga framed industrializing rural communities as non-negotiable.
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