Zimbabwe

=== Minerals ===
The mining sector is lucrative, with some of the world's largest [[platinum]] reserves being mined by [[Anglo American plc]], Zimplats, and Impala Platinum.<ref name="nofix" /> Zimplats, the nation's largest platinum company, has proceeded with US$500&nbsp;million in expansions, and is also continuing a separate US$2 billion project, despite threats by Mugabe to nationalise the company.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dube |first=Jennifer |date=3 April 2011 |title=Zimplats ignores seizure threat |newspaper=The Standard |location=Harare, Zimbabwe |url=http://www.thestandard.co.zw/business/29142-zimplats-ignores-seizure-threat.html |access-date=4 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511145956/http://www.thestandard.co.zw/business/29142-zimplats-ignores-seizure-threat.html |archive-date=11 May 2011}}</ref>

The [[Marange diamond fields]], discovered in 2006, are considered the biggest diamond find in over a century.<ref name="EarthTimes">[http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/diamond-company-in-trouble-with-harare-mps-1.472176#.U_aWGSimH-E "Diamond company in trouble with Harare MPs"], ''Independent Online'', South Africa, 2 February 2010.</ref> They have the potential to improve the fiscal situation of the country considerably, but almost all revenues from the field have disappeared into the pockets of army officers and ZANU–PF politicians.<ref>{{cite web |date=26 June 2009 |title=Diamonds in the rough, report by Human Rights Watch |url=https://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/06/26/diamonds-rough |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908020850/http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/06/26/diamonds-rough |archive-date=8 September 2012 |access-date=6 June 2012 |publisher=Human Rights Watch}}</ref> In terms of carats produced, the Marange field is one of the largest diamond-producing projects in the world,<ref name="Kitco">[http://www.kitco.com/ind/Zimnisky/2013-08-20-Ranking-Of-The-World-s-Diamond-Mines-By-Estimated-2013-Production.html "Ranking Of The World's Diamond Mines By Estimated 2013 Production"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053511/http://www.kitco.com/ind/Zimnisky/2013-08-20-Ranking-Of-The-World-s-Diamond-Mines-By-Estimated-2013-Production.html|date=21 September 2013}}, ''[[Kitco]]'', 20 August 2013.</ref> estimated to have produced 12&nbsp;million carats in 2014 worth over $350&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 May 2015 |title=Zimbabwe diamond exports fell 34 pct in 2014: official |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFKBN0NZ0I420150514 |url-status=dead |access-date=11 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150517050109/http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFKBN0NZ0I420150514 |archive-date=17 May 2015}}</ref>

{{As of|2014|10}}, [[Metallon Corporation]] was Zimbabwe's largest gold miner.<ref name="Metallon">Marawanyika, Godfrey, [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-17/biggest-zimbabwe-gold-miner-to-decide-on-london-listing-by-march Biggest Zimbabwe Gold Miner to Rule on London Trade by March], Bloomberg News, 17 October 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2016.</ref>
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