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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.