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Tanzania threatens to close gold mine over waste water pollution

Acacia Mining
Acacia Mining’s Buzwagi mine in Tanzania. [Photo: Courtesy]

Acacia Mining Plc must halt waste water pollution at its North Mara gold mine in Tanzania by March 30 or the facility will be shut down, the country’s mining minister said on Friday.

Doto Biteko said Acacia needs to stop contaminated water seeping from a waste storage dam at the mine to nearby communities in the country’s north.

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