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(Bloomberg) -- David Brown, chief executive officer of Zimbabwe’s Kuvimba Mining House Ltd., which holds the nation’s key mining assets, said he quit the firm in August. The 58-year-old mining executive said the company named Simba Chinyemba as the new CEO.
There are big plans for two mining interests in Zimbabwe; GDI and Kuvimba. David Brown’s association with Zimbabwe’s mining sector dates to his six years as CEO of Impala Platinum (Implats), which ended in 2012. During that time, he met with then president Robert Mugabe to end a dispute between the government and Implats regarding certain mineral rights. Brown is now back in the country as non- executive chairman of Great Dyke Investments (GDI), a company backed by private Russian interests that is hoping to raise $550m for a platinum group metals (PGM) mine, Darwendale. His day job, how...