Lithium to spur industrialisation: Chiwenga

ZIMBABWE is aiming to anchor its rural industrialisation agenda on its vast mineral and natural resources, including the huge lithium deposits in Mberengwa, Midlands province, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has said.

He said this while speaking to journalists after touring Sandawana Mines, a division of Mutapa Energy Minerals, in Mberengwa district on Wednesday this week.

The Vice-President also toured the construction site of the Chinese-operated three-million tonne per annum lithium concentrator plant where work is expected to begin in June this year and will to be completed in 18 months.

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