Buzwagi Gold Mine

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Location Kahama
Region Shinyanga
Country Tanzania
Coordinates 3°51′40″S32°40′15″E / 3.86111°S 32.67083°E / -3.86111; 32.67083
Production
Production189,000
Financial year2009
History
Opened2009
Owner
Company Acacia Mining
Website Company website
Year of acquisition2000

Buzwagi Gold Mine is an open pit gold mine in the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania, located 6 kilometres southeast from the town of Kahama. It is operated by Acacia Mining.

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It is one of three gold mines Acacia Mining operates in Tanzania, the other two being Bulyanhulu and the North Mara Gold Mine. In the financial year 2014, the company produced a combined amount of 719,000 attributable ounces of gold. [1]

History

Gold mining in Tanzania in modern times dates back to the German colonial period, beginning with gold discoveries near Lake Victoria in 1894. The first gold mine in what was then Tanganyika, the Sekenke Mine, began operation in 1909, and gold mining in Tanzania experienced a boom between 1930 and World War II. By 1967, gold production in the country had dropped to insignificance but was revived in the mid-1970s, when the gold price rose once more. In the late 1990s, foreign mining companies started investing in the exploration and development of gold deposits in Tanzania, leading to the opening of a number of new mines. [2]

Barrick acquired Buzwagi, alongside Tulawaka, as part of its acquisition of Pangea Goldfields Inc. in 2000. [3] The mine, the second largest mining operation and the largest single open pit mine in Tanzania, opened in 2009. The mine was construction for Buzwagi cost approximately $400 million, [4] and employed more than 3,000 staff. [5] It consists of an open pit mine, ore processing facilities, a waste rock storage facility, a tailings storage facility, as well as water management and other ancillary facilities. In 2009, Buzwagi employed close to 1,500 staff. It has, as of 2014, an expected mine life of 5 years remaining.

In 2010, 60 employees were suspended, after Barrick discovered widespread fuel theft by employees at the mine. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Acacia Mining website Archived 2015-08-10 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 14 August 2015
  2. ↑ Tanzania Mining History Archived 2010-08-14 at the Wayback Machine tanzaniagold.com, accessed: 24 July 2010
  3. ↑ Overview / Profile&categoryChosen=History of ABG ABG African Barrick Gold website: History Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 24 July 2010
  4. ↑ Hill, Liezel (4 May 2008). "Barrick reports first gold pour at Tanzania mine". Creamers Mining Weekly. Retrieved 2010-07-21.
  5. ↑ "Buzwagi pours first gold". Daily News. 11 May 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
  6. ↑ "Mining Journal - African Barrick suspends Buzwagi employees". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
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