The new law also prohibits use of mechanical equipment or motor powered equipment in alluvial mining and orders miners to ensure progressive rehabilitation of works undertaken, restoration of mined areas, ensure pollution abatement, erosion and siltation control, revegetation of mined areas and monitoring of water quality and quantity.
The State also prohibited the use of mercury in mining in accordance with The Minamata Convention — a United Nations pact designed to limit mercury use and emissions internationally, which Zimbabwe signed up to early this year.
It also banned the use of cyanide following the widely publicised poisoning of over 100 elephants at the Hwange National Park.
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