Tanzania orders water cleanup by March 30 at Acacia gold mine or face closure
A miner inside Bulyanhulu gold mine in northern Tanzania. Acacia has until March 30 to stop waste water pollution at its Mara gold mine or the mine will be shut down. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Acacia Mining Plc has until March 30 to stop waste water pollution at its North Mara gold mine in Tanzania or the mine will be shut down, the country’s mining minister said.
Doto Biteko, appointed minister in January with orders to be “strict” on managing Tanzania’s mineral wealth, said Acacia must stop contaminated water seeping from a waste storage dam at the mine to nearby communities in the country’s north.
