Tanzania offers great mining lessons for Ghana

The country’s small-scale mining sector is, however, inundated with challenges of foreign invasion across its resource rich regions, with the attendant pollution of both surface and underground water bodies. Stories of chemicals such as mercury and arsenic poisoning of water bodies, the degradation of several hectres of land that have caused considerable environmental and social problems abound.

And here is where Tanzania, a country profiled by the BBC as one of the world’s poorest; with many of its people living below the World Bank poverty line, beats Ghana.

Tanzania, like Ghana, is blessed with resources like gold, sisal, cloves, coffee, cotton, cashew nuts, tobacco and her recently discovered uranium and more than 17 trillion cubic feet of gas.
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