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TANZANIA'S largest gold producer, Acacia Mining Plc (formerly known as African Barrick Gold), is in talks with the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and other government authorities to try to resolve a major new dispute on whether or not the UK-registered firm has a taxable presence in Tanzania.
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The price of gold in the world market recently reached USD 1,600 per ounce and is projected to even rise more. Tanzania has become one of the fastest emerging gold producers in Africa, and is now the fourth largest gold producing country after South Africa and Ghana. Annual production of gold in 2010 was 44.6 tonnes.
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ABG, which has four mines in Africa's fourth-largest gold producing country, agreed to an increase in royalties to 4% from 3% and also agreed to pay the royalty based on a new revenue formula. The formula takes into account the gross sale value of gold sent abroad instead of its net value at point of export.
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Canada's Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE:ABX) has confirmed it will buy Randgold Resources Ltd in an all-share deal to create the world's largest gold miner valued at US$18.3bn.. Shares in Randgold ...
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Back in 2010, Barrick Gold made a spin-off of some of its African assets, creating a company named African Barrick Gold. Later, in 2014, African Barrick Gold was renamed to Acacia Mining.
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In May 2011, African Barrick Gold, owner of the North Mara Gold Mine in northern Tanzania, announced a plan to erect a three-metre-high concrete wall to enhance security against incursions from local (displaced) populations. Taking this wall as both metaphorical and material, this paper questions the psychological impact of displacement
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montreal, québec-- (marketwired - nov. 15, 2013) - mdn inc. ("mdn") ( mdn.to) reports to its shareholders that african barrick gold plc (abg), the project operator at the tulawaka gold mine in...
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AFRICAN BARRICK GOLD was also required to remit withholding taxes on payments which the mining entities in Tanzania had paid to the parent, together with payments which was made to other non-resident persons (its shareholders) for the service rendered between 2010 up to September 2013.
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London-listed African Barrick Gold (LON:ABG) r eported increasing confidence in its Nyanzaga project, in Tanzania and said that the project has the potential to become its next mine in the country ...
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Tanzania initially planned to conclude negotiations with mining companies last month on the new royalty payments. The 2010 Mining Act increased the rate of royalty paid on minerals such as gold...
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African Barrick Gold, which has four gold mines in Tanzania, is however the only company that has so far publicly announced it will pay the new 4 percent royalty rate. AngloGold's Davies said...
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There are other examples such as the 1% increase in royalties imposed on African Barrick Gold by the Tanzanian government earlier this month, or the imposition in November of a fixed royalty rate of 5% in Africa's second largest gold producer, Ghana. This compares to a 3% to 6% rate previously adopted in that country.
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Table 1 shows that the social responsibility disclosures by Africa Barrick Gold were mainly in a narrative form, which can be categorised under environment, health and safety, community relations and security and human rights. For example, it was stated that: 'Operating in some areas of Tanzania requires ABG, as well as the Tanzanian government and the local communities, to deal with law and ...
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In Tanzania, a gold mine indirectly owned by the Canadian gold mining giant Barrick, has a documented history of human rights abuses and environmental damage. The North Mara gold mine currently sends its gold bars to MMTC-PAMP in India, which puts it among the suppliers of many companies in the tech industry.
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The recent case involving FTSE 250 mining company, Acacia Mining, (formerly known as African Barrick Gold plc and referred to hereafter as Acacia) shows that extreme care that needs to be taken when investing in emerging markets, and highlights a possible trend of judicial approaches in those markets to perceived tax avoidance.
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Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (7/2/12) Henk J. Krasenberg, analyst and founder of the European Gold Centre and author and publisher of the GOLDVIEW newsletter, sees no lack of potential among small-cap equities, especially for investors willing to look beyond the U.S. borders. He offers names in Europe and Africa—what he calls "the poorest and richest continent"—and reminds us ...
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Tanzania said yesterday that mining companies operating in, the East African country agreed to pay a higher royalty rate of, 4 percent compared with 3 percent. The new royalty rate will, apply to miners of gold, silver and platinum and will be imposed, this year, said William Ngeleja, the minister of energy and, minerals.
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Mining officials said the government was also in talks with African Barrick Gold, which has four gold mines in Tanzania, on payment of the tax. Tanzania announced last week it plans to raise royalty payments on exports of gold by the end of this year as it seeks to restructure its mining sector. The 2010 Mining Act increased the rate of ...
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Africa Barrick Gold - Tanzania. At the African Barrick Gold (ABG), North Mara Mine in the Mara region of Tanzania the client required an experienced team to operate a newly constructed water treatment plant. The plant was built as two process trains to treat water from a tailings storage facility (TSF) and water from open cast pits.
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Extractive Industries Status: Tanzania • Current EIs Investment in Tanzania • By 1996 World Bank had advised, and actually supported the Government to introduce large scale mining [formulation of mining policy 1997 and Mining Act 1998]. • Since 1994, more than 50 multinational companies and 250 local companies have acquired mineral rights.
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This report examines child labor and exposure to mercury in small-scale gold mining in Tanzania, Africa's fourth-largest gold producer. It documents the harmful effects of mining on children ...
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Tulawaka gold mine, owned by African Barrick Gold, came third and paid Sh77.4bn/- during the same period. Although African Barrick Gold is the largest gold producer in the country, its contribution in corporation tax remains abysmal because the company continues to declare losses at its North Mara, Bulyanhulu and Buzwagi mines.
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3 days agoBarrick Gold began the year trading at $18.54 and, as of Sept. 21, is down to $15.18. It does pay a dividend, however, and its forward dividend is $0.80, with a yield of 5.27%. Just four analysts...
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Gold mining firms in Tanzania pay royalty and corporate taxes, but also receive many ... Production of gold peaked in 1938 and 1939 at more than 100,000 oz. annually (MacDonald & Roe, 2007). ... three mining companies, African Barrick Gold, AngloGold Ashanti, and Resolute Mining Limited. In 1997, Resolute Mining Limited was the first company to ...
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Barrick Gold solves Tanzania gold mine dispute for 300, Oct 21, 2019 0183 32 Barrick Gold NYSE GOLD, announced over the weekend that it is now in a position to restart its gold mining operation in Tanzania are agreeing with pay 300 million to the country At the same time, Barrick would share ownership and other benefits at three local mines in the country, achieving an agreement that has ...
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There are more than 2,000 artisanal miners in more than 100 shafts and lateral workings on the property, mining gold anywhere from 8-50 grams per ton (g/t). In this sense there's already an ...
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He points to cumulative royalties paid to the state in 2000-11 of $103m. Last year alone they totalled $23m, with another $77m in taxes. Yet there has been concern over the retrospective...
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Analysts said they expect gold output in east Africa's second-biggest economy to continue its downward trajectory in 2013 as major producers are hard hit by rising costs and falling bullion prices....
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A law suit was filed in 2013, in the United Kingdom, by UK-based Leigh Day against African Barrick Gold plc (now Acacia Mining plc) and its subsidiary, North Mara Gold Mine Limited. The clients were villagers who had suffered injuries and fatalities at the North Mara mine. A number of cases were settled out of court early in 2015.
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In Ghana's gold mining sector, despite providing an initial boost to government revenue in 2011, significant tax and royalty increases have come just as the price of gold has dropped. Tanzania ...
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African Barrick Gold, one of Africa's top five producers, and the largest in Tanzania, has seen its shares fall nearly 75% over the last 12 months. Cash costs average $931 per oz. But at the Tulawaka mine in Tanzania, source of 5% of the company's gold, cash costs are $1,269 per oz.
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In October, Canada's African Barrick Gold chief executive Brad Gordon said the company will be on the lookout for a trans- formational African deal in 2015. "When prices are low, that's the time to buy," says one London-based investment banker who requested anonymity.
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Barrick purchased Toronto-based Pangea Goldfields in 2000 to acquire two more Tanzanian gold mining licenses. It opened Sutton's Bulyanhulu in 2001, making Tanzania the third-largest gold producer on the continent after South Africa and Ghana. (Mali edged it out since then, and today Tanzania is the fourth-largest.)
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Investegate announcements from African Barrick Gold, Interim Results for the six months ended 30 Jun...
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3 days agoBarrick Gold began the year trading at $18.54 and, as of Sept. 21, is down to $15.18. It does pay a dividend, however, and its forward dividend is $0.80, with a yield of 5.27%.
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Challenges by First Nations of resource project approvals have become part of the legal landscape facing the mining industry in Canada. Project.
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Gold miner, TRA in talks to resolve major tax claim TANZANIA'S largest gold producer, Acacia Mining Plc (formerly known as African Barrick Gold), is in talks with the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and other government authorities to try to resolve a major new dispute on whether or not the UK-registered firm has a taxable presence in Tanzania.
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• If the LNG export projects advance, the FDI into Tanzania could range between USD20bn-USD30bn • Tanzania's mining industry earns a large share of export revenues mainly attributable to their gold production. • The sector is forecasted to be under pressure due to gold prices weakening output as well as due to the lack of new mining projects.
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Apr 18, 2022In September 2014, an ASM formalization project was launched in Rwamgasa in the Geita region of Northern Tanzania. This launch officially marked the start of the pilot stage of the Multistakeholder Partnership Initiative (MSPI) launched earlier in the year by the Government of Tanzania, World Bank Group (WBG), other two major gold mining companies (AngloGold Ashanti and African Barrick Gold ...
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May 8, 2021In 2014, when Tankoro was called South Hounde Project, Sarama entered into an earn-in agreement with African Barrick Gold which became Acacia Mining, to earn up to a 70% project interest, for US1m cash + US$14m expenditure in the ground.
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