DODOMA: TANZANIA has outlined ambitious plans to strengthen its mining sector, aiming to become the main mineral trading hub ...

A small-scale miner from Tanzania become an overnight millionaire on Wednesday after he sold two rough tanzanite gemstones said to be the largest ever found in the country. Saniniu Laizer, 52, ...

Narok Governor Samuel Ole Tunai sharing a word with Narok County Commissioner Moffat Kangi during the Madaraka Day Celebrations at Maasai Mara University grounds. Kangi (right) says miners have been ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania's president ordered the military on Wednesday to build walls around its tanzanite mines and directed the central bank to buy the precious stone to boost reserves - ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Tanzanian President John Magufuli has ordered a review of a Petra Diamonds Ltd contract and asked senior public officials to resign over the outcome of an ...

The board of directors of State Mining Corporation (Stamico), a wholly owned government enterprise under Tanzania’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals, has concluded a two-day visit to the company’s ...

DAR ES SALAAM, June 24 (Reuters) - A Tanzanian subsistence miner hit the jackpot on Wednesday after the government handed him a cheque for 7.74 billion Tanzanian shillings ($3.35 million) for the two ...

NAIROBI – Tanzanian gemstone miner Tanzanite One has agreed to pay compensation and overdue taxes to the government after unspecified violations led to losses in public revenues, the President's ...

A Tanzanian miner made another discovery of one of the rarest gemstones on Earth, possibly earning the small-scale miner millions of dollars — again. Saniniu Laizer, 52, recently discovered the rare, ...

Most gems are found in several places in the world. Emeralds come from Colombia but also from Zimbabwe; there’s amethyst on almost every continent; and diamonds—although associated with Africa—are ...