History Of The Chamber

Fourteen years ago, November 1994 the Tanzania Chamber of Mines came into existence after a long period of consultations among key stakeholders including mining and exploration companies, Ministry of Energy and Minerals and individuals involved in mineral extraction.
The Chamber was formed primarily to represent, protect and foster the common interests of private sector players in the mineral sector particularly those of its members and to generally promote the mining industry in the country following Government's resole to liberalize the economy placing mineral development in private hands.
Since its inception the Chamber has performed various important tasks and responded to challenges of an evolving and rapidly developing mineral sector. Some of the Chambers activities that the Chamber has undertaken include:
 

• Participation in the formulation and review of the Mining Act 1998.
• Participation in the organization of the Arusha Conferencing Executives dialogue with the Head of State in February 1998.
• Presentation to TRA on Value Added Tax as applied to the mining industry:
• Conducting of a national Mining awareness workshop in September 1999as part of the mining awareness campaign in light of new developments in the mining industry.
• Launching of a publication: On 23rd March 2001 the Chamber launched a publication titled "What Mining Means for Tanzania
• Parliamentary Seminar "Keeping Promises": On 31st March 2001 Tanzania Chamber of Mines and Geita Gold Mine conducted a seminar to members of Parliament
• Presentation to Parliamentary Committee on Finance and economics: The Chamber made presentations to the parliamentary committee on Finance and Economics on 17th July in an effort to expose to legislators some of the problems that were facing the mining industry.
• Presidential Environmental Excellence Award; The Chamber participated in making preparations for the Award. The awarding event took place on 12th September 2002 during the official opening of North Mara Gold Mine.