Zimbabwe: Top African Lithium Producer, Zimbabwe Plans Incentives to Encourage Mineral Processing

Zimbabwe will introduce incentives to encourage mining companies to process their output locally, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.

“Bold decisions must be taken” to speed up the expansion of mineral beneficiation and value addition, he said at a mining conference in Bulawayo, the second largest city, on Thursday. He didn’t elaborate.

The plan fits within a wider push across Africa to add value to natural resources before exporting them to reap greater economic rewards.

Ghana, Africa’s biggest…