Tanzania says to start cancelling inactive mining licences

Tanzania will start cancelling inactive mining exploration licences and distribute the acreage to artisanal miners who are able to immediately commence activity in the area, a minister said on Tuesday.

Deputy minister for minerals, Stanslaus Nyongo, told parliament he had issued an order that “all inactive prospecting licences are cancelled for the areas to be given to the small-scale miners who are eager to develop and increase the contribution of the mining sector.”