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Zimbabwe

Name: Zimbabwe mining country record — Afrimintel
Creator: Afrimintel
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Fraser IAIAbsent — no figure captured on the record yet

TI CPI22

NRGI RGI52

EITINot an EITI implementing country

Each index is shown as its publisher states it, with its edition. Afrimintel combines them into no score: the country composite was withdrawn on 12 October 2026. Audit log.

Trade-gap indicator: Zimbabwe's gold carries a SWISSAID modeled smuggling estimate of ~60 t (2022), largely routed via the South African refining hub. Attributed third-party estimate, not an Afrimintel loss figure. Matrix & method → Separate context; it feeds no score.

Index vintages & basis

Fraser IAI 2025 (Annual Survey of Mining Companies, released 26 Feb 2026; 68 jurisdictions, 14 in Africa; survey conducted Aug–Nov 2025). All 14 Africa-covered jurisdictions are now PDF-Sourced from Table 1 (back-check 2026-06-24); ∗-marked scores had 5–9 responses (lower confidence). The other 26 Afrimintel jurisdictions are Fraser-Absent: not scored by Fraser in 2025 — most appear on the survey's published dropped-jurisdiction list (<5 responses), the remainder fall outside Fraser's survey coverage. Absent, not Pending) + TI CPI 2025 (Feb 2026 release, full Africa coverage) + NRGI RGI 2021 (latest available; NRGI has not republished since) + EITI implementation status 2026 (binary membership input)

Geology

Primary province(s)Kalahari Platform / Kaapvaal Craton province views →

Assets (2 attributable from records)

Asset	Stage	Operator
Arcadia	Operating	Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt 100% (via Prospect Lithium Zimbabwe)
Bikita	Operating	Sinomine Resource Group 100% (via Bikita Minerals)

Attribution requires either the country stated in the asset record name, or an externally Sourced enrichment record carrying a named primary source plus independent corroboration (no inference — text-inference attribution was built, tested, and withdrawn pre-deploy after verification caught false positives; see the audit log). 47 distinct platform assets remain Absent pending continuation of the record-enrichment pass (duplicate-flagged records excluded from this count as of v2.22.0). Full asset layer on the platform.