Buzwagi View Hotel is a neat and clean basic hotel in Kahama. You can find out more about it here.
Buzwagi Gold Mine Email Address/Barrick Gold Tanzania Contacts
The Buzwagi gold mine is in the process of closure. If you would like to contact them, you can do so through Barrick’s Tanzania office. Their telephone number is +255-22-2164200/+255-22-2600604.
Buzwagi Gold Mine Address
Buzwagi Gold Mine P.O. Box 1101 Kahama, Shinyanga Tanzania
Buzwagi Gold Mine Photos
After settling in, we visited the mining operations, where we were greeted by this huge mound of unprocessed gold.This is the processing plant where that mound of gold will be processed into something more gold-looking. 🙂This is gold ore as it looks when it first comes out of the ground.Buzwagi gold mine photos: Buzwagi gold mine is an open-pit (above ground) mine, which essentially looks like a ginormous hole dug out of the ground.Buzwagi gold mine photos: I was mesmerized by the sheer magnitude of it all.Finally, we reached the bottom of one section of the mine.There we found a large 150-ton-capacity dump truck being loaded with gold ore.In another section of the mine, we saw this powerful extractor digging ore from the ground.Leaving the mine behind, we visited an innovative rainwater-harvesting project that can collect enough water to run the mine’s operations for a whole year.Once collected, the water is stored in a reservoir covered by a membrane to protect it from evaporation. (Can’t possibly imagine there’s a huge amount of water under this, eh?)After the water project, we visited the mine’s medical facilities where we wore boot-covers to keep the facility clean.Then we visited ABG’s community projects in the surrounding area. One such project was a wall built at a Catholic girls’ school for the girls’ protection.As we visited projects, I couldn’t help but notice how arid the land was.
Mwendakulima Secondary School Kahama
The first thing I noticed at the school were many, many bicycles parked in the school yard.Could this be an indication of relative prosperity in the community surrounding the mine?When we arrived, the students were on their afternoon break.We also visited Mwendakulima Secondary School, a joint venture between ABG, the Tanzanian government, and the nearby community.A wide-angle view of the school…Returning to the mine, we had to pass through very strict security. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about ABG, it’s that they are obsessive about occupational safety and security…almost to a fault!At night, we decided to venture to nearby Kahama for some nyama choma and pints. Shock on me when I saw this seemingly metropolitan city appear out of nowhere! Turns out, it was only the processing plant lit up for its nighttime operations. 🙂
Barrick North Mara Gold Mine Postal Address
NORTH MARA GOLD MINE P.O. Box 422 Tarime Tanzania
or alternatively
Barrick Gold Tanzania P.O. Box
North Mara Gold Mine Limited Registered Address: Tan House Tower, Plot Number 34/1, Ursino South, New Bagamoyo Road, Post Office Box 1081, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
North Mara Gold Mine Email Address
I do not know of a general email address through which you can reach the North Mara Gold Mine. I think you’d more likely be successful reaching them by telephone.
North Mara Gold Mine Photos
The tailings storage facility at North Mara Gold Mine
Daku Time in Dar es Salaam
If you are interested in the daku time in Dar es Salaam, you can find that information here.
This week finds me on a tour of African Barrick Gold’s (Tanzania’s largest gold producer’s) mines and operations in Northern Tanzania.
The past three days have been interesting, to say the least, and as I promised my followers on Twitter, here are some African Barrick Gold Buzwagi gold mine photos from the first day of the tour.
Enjoy!
If you are anything like I was before this tour, I trust these pictures will satisfy some of your curiosity about Tanzania’s gold mines and the life around them.
African Barick Gold Tour Day 1 in Pictures (Buzwagi Gold Mine)
Our first stop on the way to Buzwagi gold mine was Mwanza.Wondering where Mwanza is? Check out its relative distance and direction from some of East Africa’s towns and cities.From Mwanza, we took a chartered plane……Auric Air, which I’d previously used several times on my way “home” to Bukoba.
Mwanza is Tanzania’s second largest city. This finally clicked for me as I looked out over Mwanza from the plane.We might as well have been sitting in the cockpit! 🙂Finally, we arrived at Buzwagi airstrip...in African Barrick Gold territory.After a short drive, we reached the wall of African Barrick Gold’s residential enclave (apparently, the wall was named after a security officer who manned the gate–how cute! 🙂 )The residential enclave included quaint little houses, complete with pseudo-picket fences……and gardens/greenery.
Barrick North Mara Jobs 2022
If you are interested in working at Barrick’s North Mara gold mine, go here to see a list of positions that are currently available.
