Zimbabwe is upbeat about growth in its mining sector.“Zimbabwe has huge amounts of unexplored and underexploited mineral resource potential as well as huge human capital resources, but what we lack is capital inf lows,” according to minister of mines and mining development, Winston Chitando. But, he said, the government was working hard to change this.“We have been addressing bottlenecks and the ease of doing business and we are already seeing growth. We have also addressed policy clarity and consistency. Zimbabwe is ready to receive the capital input.”According to Chitando, Zimbabwe had set a target of developing mining to a $120-billion-a-year industry by 2023, from $2.7 billion in 2018. “This is more than a 334% increase,” he said. “Legislative issues have been some of the biggest problems experienced, but we are addressing these and introducing systems that will make it easier to do business. Zimbabwe is ripe and ready while the opportunities are huge. Most of the exploration in the country was carried out in the fifties and sixties. Essentially the biggest part of the country has not yet been explored.”He said while the country had reserves for more than 60 minerals and metals, only about ten were currently being mined due to the lack of exploration.“Beyond that there is also potential in brownfield projects. Around the country there are many disused mines that have been around for 70 years or more. These mines can be re-opened and re-mined thanks to the new technologies available.”While Zimbabwe has had its fair share of challenges with power outages, inf lation and foreign exchange restrictions, Chitando said President Emmerson Mnangagwa had been introducing change on a grand scale over the past two years.He said in Zimbabwe all investors were now free to reap capital dividends – and while there had been challenges in the past in balancing the supply and demand, this had been addressed.“Speak to any company and they will tell you, you can get your capital dividends out of Zimbabwe,” said Chitando.