{"id":247015,"date":"2026-10-13T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chinese-investor-to-establish-lithium-sulphate-plant-in-midlands-province\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:00:21","slug":"zimbabwe-chinese-investor-to-establish-lithium-sulphate-plant-in-midlands-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chinese-investor-to-establish-lithium-sulphate-plant-in-midlands-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chinese Investor to Establish Lithium Sulphate Plant in Midlands Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">ZVISHAVANE-based Zheli Mining is set to establish a lithium sulphate plant in the Midlands Province by December 2026 as the company steps up efforts to beneficiate lithium locally, with equipment for the facility already in transit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The development comes as the Chinese miner expands processing operations at its Zvishavane plant, where it has invested about US$15 million since establishing operations in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The company is not extracting lithium but currently processing ore from Mutapa Energy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120225.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZVISHAVANE-based Zheli Mining is set to establish a lithium sulphate plant in the Midlands Province by December 2026 as the company steps up efforts to beneficiate lithium locally, with equipment for the facility already in transit. The development comes as the Chinese miner expands processing operations at its Zvishavane plant, where it has invested about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,435,7946,20578,43979,4656,257,8489,11048,254,55639,4686,421],"class_list":["post-247015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chinese","tag-establish","tag-investor","tag-lithium","tag-midlands","tag-news","tag-plant","tag-province","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sulphate","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}