IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND THE MINING INDUSTRY: .
Thus, since 1998 Tanzania has been opening one gold mine every year. Currently the country has mining investment worth over 1 billion US dollars and boasts six modern gold mines in operation producing 1,500,000 ounces of gold worth more than 400 million US dollars annually ( Mbilinyi, 2004). For example, there are the South Africa's AngloGold and Londonbased Ashanti Goldfields, sharing the ...