Canada-based research organisation the Fraser Institute has placed Zimbabwe among the world's ten worst mining jurisdictions, according to its 2013 Mining Survey, which tallied responses from about 4 100 global mining company executives and managers. Zimbabwe ranked 106 out of 112 for its investor attractiveness and was also near the bottom of the log in 2012, when it ranked 91 out of 96 countries. Fraser Institute natural resources studies senior director Dr Kenneth Green tells Mining Weekly that the yearly survey, which has been conducted since 1997, considers several aspects - such as the availability of infrastructure, labour regulations, policy stability, minerals potential and socioeconomic expectations - that influence investors' decisions on whether to invest in a mining jurisdiction.
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