Steel Dreams: Can Liganga End Tanzania’s Import Dependence?
Every year, Tanzania spends more than $1 billion importing steel beams, rods, plates, and coils that form the skeleton of…
Welcome to Tanzania Digest’s Mining hub, covering the full value chain of Tanzania’s mining industry. We track gold, nickel, graphite, uranium, and tanzanite; policy, royalties, and local-content compliance; major projects and juniors; and the costs, logistics, and energy that determine competitiveness. Expect evidence-based explanations, data-driven briefs, and interviews that connect geology, markets, infrastructure, and community outcomes, so that investors, operators, policymakers, and citizens can make informed decisions.
Beyond Ore: Kabanga as an Industrial Pivot, Not Just a Mine
Picture two futures. In one, you return to Ngara twenty years from now. The mine has closed. The pit is…
Who Owns the Nickel Narrative? Transparency, Licensing, and Trust
In every village meeting about a big project, there is a moment when someone stands up and asks a simple…
Community and Corridor: What Kabanga Means for Kagera and Beyond
Stand at first light on a ridge outside Ngara and you can see the outlines of a future that has…
Learning from Zambia: How Not to Build a Nickel Monoculture
There was a time when Zambia’s copper belt seemed invincible. In the years following independence, copper revenues funded schools, hospitals,…
Infrastructure as Destiny: Why SGR + JNHPP Decide Kabanga’s Fate
Picture two futures. In one, a hundred-wagon train rumbles through the night along the Central Corridor, hauling nickel concentrate from…
The Promise of Kabanga Nickel: Tanzania’s EV Future
The global economy is being rewired around “future metals.” Nickel, cobalt, lithium, and graphite have moved from obscure tables in…
Samia to Launch Ruvuma Uranium Mine: Tanzania’s Push for Nuclear Power and Local Jobs.
Uranium Revolution Begins: Tanzania’s $1.2bn Mantra Project to Fuel Nuclear Ambitions”
Can Tanzania Domestic Gold Purchase Programme Reduce the Demand for External Borrowing?
Yes, Tanzania’s Domestic Gold Purchase Programme “can directly reduce the need for external borrowing”, and here’s why and how it…
Inside Tanzania’s 2025/26 Mining Budget Speech: Mining Firms Face Tightening Noose on Local Content and Environmental Compliance
On 2 May 2024, the Tanzanian Minister of Minerals presented the budget for the Ministry of Minerals for the year…
