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The Nyamongo Gold Mine, Tanzania
The Nyamongo Gold Mine is located in Tarime district
in the Mara Region of northeast Tanzania. The mine is a
combined open pit and underground operation from
two deposits – Gokona (underground) and Nyabirama
(open pit) – and has a plant that has the capacity
to process an average of 8,000 metric tonnes of ore
per day. During the period prior to June 1984, the
Nyamongo area had no large-scale mining activities. By
June 2015, two major pits and a wastewater dam/pond
had been created, resulting in extensive changes to the
landscape (Tilumanywa 2014).
Mining