Zim Now Writer
Close to 4 000 people who were employed in the mining industry lost their jobs in the second quarter of 2023, statistics from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency show.
According to ZimStat, 68 296 people lost employment across all sectors of Zimbabwe’s economy with the extractive sector accounting for 5.6%, which is 3 825.
Of the 3 239 965 people were formally employed in the country, with 6.2% of them, which translates to 200 878, in the extractive industry, which accounts for about 12%of GDP, in Q2.
During the same period, 8 017 people reported work-related illness or injury in the mining industry.
Artisanal miners, who are considered as informally employed by virtue of them having no registers or documentation are around 138 925.
Zimbabwe’s diversified mining industry, which boasts 63 different minerals, dominated mainly by platinum, gold, chrome, coal, diamonds and lithium.
The country has the second-largest platinum and high-grade chromium deposits in the world with an estimated 2.8 billion ton of platinum group metals and 10 billion tons of chromium ore,
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