A mine. A presidential committee said unnamed TMAA officials were compromised six years ago to weaken the business case for Tanzania building local smelters for its mineral sands. PHOTO | FILE
Heads could roll at the Tanzania Minerals Audit Agency (TMAA) after President John Magufuli ordered an investigation of its officials and those at the Mining Ministry over suspected fraud.
A report by the Presidential Probe Committee that assessed 277 containers from Acacia Mining, a subsidiary of Barrick Gold, detained at the Dar es Salaam port last week showed that the concentrates contained 1,400 grammes of minerals per tonne, seven times the value declared on the export documents.
