Exploring Tanzania's growth
Welcome to Tanzania Digest’s Mining hub, covering the full value chain of Tanzania’s mining industry. We track gold, nickel, graphite, uranium, and tanzanite; policy, royalties, and local-content compliance; major projects and juniors; and the costs, logistics, and energy that determine competitiveness. Expect evidence-based explanations, data-driven briefs, and interviews that connect geology, markets, infrastructure, and community outcomes, so that investors, operators, policymakers, and citizens can make informed decisions.
As Tanzania celebrates its 64th independence anniversary, it also reflects on the significant transformation within its mining sector over the…
Every mine carries geology in its rock, but Nyanzaga carries law in its licence. Unlike Geita or Bulyanhulu, which were…
When Perseus’s board approved Nyanzaga’s Final Investment Decision in April 2025, it set a clock ticking: fewer than 900 days…
Mines are never built by a single company. While Perseus Mining headlines the Nyanzaga story, the actual work is delivered…
For most Tanzanians, a gold mine is imagined in headlines: tonnes of ore, billions in revenues, royalties flowing to the…
For most observers, a mine is defined by its pit and its ounces. But Nyanzaga’s real test will lie in…
From a distance, the hills of Sengerema look ordinary: gently sloping ridges, cassava fields, and scattered homesteads overlooking the vast…
Every mine rests on a story of rocks, but it is arithmetic that decides whether those rocks become revenue. Nyanzaga…
On the north-western rim of Lake Victoria, beyond the fishing dhows and cassava plots of Sengerema, a different kind of…
In Ludewa, where the hills hide Liganga’s iron ore, a farmer looks across his small plot and asks a simple…
