Tanzania’s main diamond mine, Williamson, has a potential mine life of over 50 years, although the current mine plan only accounts for 18 years.
Unregulated miners in Tanzania are hurting operations and the extraction of high quality tanzanite gems.
The measured and indicated resources of Mkuju River Project amounted to 35,888 tonnes of uranium.
Local villagers allegedly invaded the site to steal gold sand.
Tanzania's largest gold miner posted a fourth quarter loss driven by heavy write-downs and a warning of a further fall in output.
The Tanzania-focused gold minhas suffered from three consecutive years of declining gold production
Stock loses a fifth of its value on Tuesday.
Uranium One Inc. subsidiary Mantra Tanzania said today that it aims to start construction work on its Mkuju River uranium mine in southern Tanzania in 2013. The company hopes to become one of the top ten uranium producers worldwide.
Shares in London-listed African Barrick Gold (LON:ABG) were falling by over 4% on Friday after rising costs and dipping production impacted the miner’s Q3 profit.
London-listed Petra Diamonds shares were on the rise again Monday after the company revealed Friday it had started selling three of its non-core mines.
London-listed Petra Diamonds has reduced its production targets at its mines in Africa for this fiscal year by 0.25 million carats to 2.85 million carats.
Barrick Gold was trading up 3.8% in heavy volumes in Toronto and African Barrick Gold shot up 8% after Barrick confirmed that it is in early talks with China National Gold Group regarding its 74% holding in ABG.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics and professor at Columbia University, has some sobering thoughts for Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique.
The gold-rich African nation of Tanzania has introduced a 30% corporate tax for mining companies in operation for more than five years, stating that the move is justified by rising precious metal prices on the international market.
The Tanzanian-focused miner blamed the cost of generating its own electricity – which it has to do "more and more" – for the increase in costs.
Effective tomorrow, 6,000,000 shares of the company will begin trading on the TSX Venture Exchange
African Barrick Gold (LON:ABG) has decided to pay the Tanzanian government an extra 1% in royalties, in light of the current gold price environment.
African Barrick Gold plc (ABG), one of the largest gold producers in Africa said it expects to increase gold production by about 300,000 ounces a year in the next two years.
African Barrick Gold (LON:ABG) shares rose 6% today as the miner announced its board has approved a $185 million expansion at Bulyanhulu, its underground gold mine in Tanzania.
London-based Petra Diamonds has restarted production at its Williamson mine in Tanzania after two years spent rehabilitating the surface area.
“Based on what we’ve seen from recent drilling, expectations are high that this major expansion in drilling activity at Buckreef will not only significantly boost our resource base but the overall grade tenor in the Buckreef deposit as well.”
The latest assay results from the ongoing drill program at Tanzanian Royalty’s Buckreef Gold Project in northern Tanzania lend additional support to the emergence of a high grade gold discovery at depth across above-average widths.
Ellis Martin interviews David Duval, special advisor to Jim Sinclair, President of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corproation (NYSE:TRX).
Tanzania-focused Shanta Gold is planning to raise $35 million to be put towards its New Luika Gold Mine.
London-listed African Barrick Gold (LON:ABG) reported increasing confidence in its Nyanzaga project, in Tanzania and said that the project has the potential to become its next mine in the country.
Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contractual agreement withConsulmet Metals (Pty) Limited of South Africa to complete a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) for a gravity recovery plant on its Kigosi Gold Project in the Lake Victoria Goldfields of Tanzania.
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