Bulyanhulu, Tanzania
Tanzania - Mining: Gold Mining Overview MBendi Information on Africa March 15/2005 Tanzania has become one of the fastest-emerging gold producers in Africa, and is now the contient’s third-largest gold-producing country after South Africa and Ghana.
Robbing the Poor to Give to the Rich Lawyers' Environmental Action Team January 17/2003 Robbing the Poor to Give to the Rich
Human Rights Abuses and Impoverishment at the MIGA-Backed Bulyanhulu Gold Mine, Tanzania
Submission to the Extractive Industries Review of the World Bank, Maputo Mozambique
Mining for trouble Tanzanian gold fields: Mass murder or mass fiction? National Post November 2/2002 In April, the CAO dispatched two specialists to Tanzania. This week, they released a summary report of their findings.
Barrick, AngloGold in Tanzania talks Reuters April 15/2002
Barrick responds National Post January 26/2002
Tanzania's mines National Post January 19/2002
Barrick's African tribulations National Post December 29/2001 Canadian company takes bum rap for deaths of miners.
Brutal mine evictions in Tanzania Toronto Star October 9/2001 Lawyers Environmental Action Team recall stories of eviction of small-scale miners from the richest body of gold ore in East Africa by the Tanzanian government and Canadian-owned Kahama Mining Corporation Ltd. in 1996.
Tanzanian mine furor grows Globe and Mail September 28/2001 NDP joins call for probe into alleged atrocities at site now owned by Barrick.
Video purports to confirm killings at Tanzanian gold mine Inter Press Service September 28/2001 A disputed video from Tanzania has revived environmental and human rights groups' calls for an independent investigation into claims that dozens of workers were buried alive at a Canadian-invested gold mine in the East African country.
Barrick rejects allegation of human rights abuse Globe and Mail September 27/2001 Barrick Gold Corp. has been caught in the middle of an international human rights controversy, and denies allegations that peasant miners were buried alive at a Tanzanian mine site it now owns.
Unearthing the truth National Post September 27/2001 Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corporation acquired this mine in the Bulyanhulu gold deposit in north-central Tanzania in 1999, three years after miners were allegedly killed at the site.
Arrests of Tanzania mine activists Bretton Woods Project January 17/2001 In late November the Tanzanian authorities took action against an organisation which has been investigating the death and dispersal of artisanal miners at a project backed by the World Bank Group.
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